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Blue City
By Ross Macdonald.
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
First published 1947.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0307740730
ISBN-13: 978-0307740731
Description:
“[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett,
refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.” – New York Times
Book Review.
“Macdonald should not be limited in audience to
connoisseurs of mystery fiction. He is
one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the
limitations of the form.” – Los Angeles Times.
“Most mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” – The
Atlantic.
“Without in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell
Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion
that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them.” – Anthony Boucher.
“[Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they
would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective
mysteries.” – The Guardian (London).
“[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent
of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago Tribune.
He was a son who hadn’t known his father very
well. It was a town shaken by a grisly
murder – his father’s murder. Johnny
Weatherly was home from a war and wandering.
When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street
corner and that his father’s seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he
started knocking on doors. The doors
came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers,
and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely. Now Johnny Weatherly was going to solve this
murder – by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the
brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown.
