The Far Side of the Dollar
By Ross Macdonald.
Vintage Crime / Black
Lizard.
First published (1965).
Published by Knopf
Doubleday Publishing Group.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0679768653
ISBN-13: 978-0679768654
Description:
Crime fiction.
“Ross Macdonald must be
ranked high amongst American thriller-writers.” – Times Literary Supplement
(London).
In The Far Side of
the Dollar, Archer is looking for an unstable rich kid who has run away
from an exclusive reform school – and into the arms of kidnappers. Why are his
desperate parents so loath to give Archer the information he needs to find him?
And why do all trails lead to a derelict Hollywood hotel where starlets and
sailors once rubbed elbows with two-bit grifters – and where the present
clientele includes a brand-new corpse? The result is Macdonald at his most
exciting, delivering 1,000-volt shocks to the nervous system while uncovering
the venality and depravity at the heart of the case.
“Most
mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” – The
Atlantic.
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