The Doomsters
By Ross Macdonald.
ASIN: 0307279049
First published 1958.
Published by Knopf
Doubleday Publishing Group.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 9780307279040
ISBN-13: 978-0307279040
Description:
“Most mystery writers
merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” – The Atlantic
Monthly.
“Ross 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.
Hired by Carl Hallman,
the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty,
detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of Hallman’s parents,
Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia. Arriving in the sleepy town of Purissima,
Archer discovers that orange groves may be where the Hallmans made their mint, but they’ve has been investing heavily in political intimidation and police
brutality to shore up their rancid riches. However, after years of dastardly
double-crossing and low down dirty-dealing, the family seem to be on the
receiving end of a karmic death-blow. With two dead already and another
consigned to the nuthouse, Archer races to crack the secret before another
Hallman lands on the slab.
Murder, madness and
greed grace The Doomsters, where a tony façade masks the rot and
corruption within.
“Ross
Macdonald is one of the best writers of the whipcord thriller.” – The
Bookman.