false 70090 280513 0679768068 9780679768067 15 <![CDATA[The Drowning Pool]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173382910m/280513.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280513.The_Drowning_Pool 3.83 211 The Drowning Pool, first published in 1950, is the second Lew Archer novel. It opens in classic hard-boiled fashion, with a well-dressed woman hesitantly engaging Archer's services at his L.A. office. Soon he's digging up secrets in her oil-rich hometown, and the themes that preoccupied Macdonald throughout his career begin to emerge: tormented families, buried secrets that fester through multiple generations, environmental destruction, concealed paternity, and the brutal contrast between rich and poor. Macdonald's later novels--including The Galton Case (1959), The Chill (1964), and The Underground Man (1971)--showed increased maturity and a tone less tied to tradition, but The Drowning Pool returns to the virtues that are the hallmarks of Mcdonald's work: complex and compelling plotting, psychological depth, just enough mayhem, and highly economical prose that routinely rises to something near poetry.

]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 867623 0679768076 9780679768074 26 <![CDATA[The Chill]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179035996m/867623.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/867623.The_Chill 4.10 167 Self-Portrait. Nowhere in his work does he better demonstrate this principle than in The Chill, first published in 1964. The plot is one of Macdonald's most masterfully constructed. Private detective Lew Archer is engaged to trace a missing spouse, who has vanished--apparently of her own free will--only a day into her honeymoon. Archer begins pulling at the threads of the case, and by page 25 they're already starting to reveal a deeper, darker story involving two murders 20 years apart. As usual, Macdonald's economical prose propels the reader forward from one action-packed scene to another, while the scenes in turn pile up to paint a rich, complex picture of buried memories, anguished relations between parents and children, the arrogance of the rich, and the search for identity. Then, at the end, one of the author's best surprise reversals changes the picture's colors entirely. Even if you're one of those discerning readers who find Macdonald's lesser work superior to most other mystery writing (as does this reviewer), The Chill stands out among his books. --Nicholas H. Allison]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 371023 0679768645 9780679768647 15 <![CDATA[The Galton Case]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174229377m/371023.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/371023.The_Galton_Case 3.97 165 The Galton Case, published in 1959, was Ross Macdonald's breakthrough book. Its predecessors are craftsmanlike, highly literate, hard-boiled detective stories; The Galton Case and most of its successors are literature that happens to inhabit the detective-story form. For Macdonald the man, Galton was the first book in which he explored his deepest personal concerns (he was the child of a broken home who was passed from relative to relative in his youth). For readers, it's the book in which he first perfected the balancing act that became his trademark: a tightly written page-turner that also probes profound themes and frequently rises to something like poetry.

The tale opens with detective Lew Archer visiting the swanky offices of a lawyer acquaintance, who engages him to hunt for a long-missing scion of the rich Galton family. Though the case seems fruitless, Archer begins digging. Soon a seemingly unrelated crime intrudes--but Archer tells us, "I hate coincidences." As he roams California (and, briefly, Nevada) following leads and hunches, he gradually uncovers a long-buried tale of deception, hatred, and the power of illusion. As usual, Macdonald can accomplish more with three lines of dialogue and a simple description than most writers can in three pages. The connection between Archer's two cases finally clicks about three-quarters of the way through the book, and the moving denouement, with its final plot twist, takes place in a hardscrabble Canadian boarding house much like those in which Macdonald spent parts of his childhood. The Galton Case is an exceptionally satisfying read on several levels. --Nicholas H. Allison

]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 451763 0679768084 9780679768081 13 <![CDATA[The Underground Man]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174884595m/451763.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/451763.The_Underground_Man 4.12 135 70090 3.91 2368 207 648640 037570146X 9780375701467 10 <![CDATA[The Moving Target]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176739887m/648640.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648640.The_Moving_Target 3.96 134
As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 371022 0375708650 9780375708657 8 <![CDATA[The Goodbye Look]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174229376m/371022.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/371022.The_Goodbye_Look 4.07 119 The Goodbye Look, Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a family with money and memories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he discovers a troubled blonde, a stash of wartime letters, a mysterious hobo. Then a stiff turns up in a car on an empty beach. And Nick turns up with a Colt .45. In The Goodbye Look, Ross Macdonald delves into the world of the rich and the troubled and reveals that the past has a deadly way of catching up to the present.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 371024 0375701451 9780375701450 9 <![CDATA[The Zebra-Striped Hearse]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174229378m/371024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/371024.The_Zebra_Striped_Hearse 3.97 121 70090 3.91 2368 207 852505 0679768106 9780679768104 10 <![CDATA[Black Money]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223634816m/852505.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/852505.Black_Money 3.89 112 Black Money (or the other two books in the current series, The Drowning Pool and The Chill) don't have them panting for more, they're probably hopeless cases.]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 121172 0553129147 9780679768654 5 <![CDATA[The Far Side of the Dollar]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171831895m/121172.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121172.The_Far_Side_of_the_Dollar 3.99 108 70090 3.91 2368 207 867621 0307278980 9780307278982 10 <![CDATA[The Way Some People Die]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179035995m/867621.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/867621.The_Way_Some_People_Die 4.00 103
Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series.]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 867622 0307278999 9780307278999 9 <![CDATA[The Ivory Grin]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179035995m/867622.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/867622.The_Ivory_Grin 3.99 87 70090 3.91 2368 207 371025 0375708669 9780375708664 6 <![CDATA[Sleeping Beauty]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174229378m/371025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/371025.Sleeping_Beauty 3.88 89 Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a
wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written, Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 648642 0375701443 9780375701443 3 <![CDATA[The Wycherly Woman]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176739888m/648642.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648642.The_Wycherly_Woman 3.92 83 70090 3.91 2368 207 648643 0446358827 9780446358828 4 <![CDATA[The Barbarous Coast]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188218440m/648643.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648643.The_Barbarous_Coast 3.79 72 70090 3.91 2368 207 171748 0375708677 9780375708671 5 <![CDATA[Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172395212m/171748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171748.Find_a_Victim_A_Lew_Archer_Novel 3.80 76 70090 3.91 2368 207 944434 0307279049 9780307279040 10 <![CDATA[The Doomsters]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944434.The_Doomsters 3.68 69
Murder, madness and greed grace The Doomsters, where a tony façade masks the rot and corruption within.]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 648729 0446358959 9780446358958 5 <![CDATA[The Instant Enemy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176752030m/648729.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648729.The_Instant_Enemy 4.07 44 70090 3.91 2368 207 595206 0446361569 9780446361569 1 <![CDATA[The Name Is Archer]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/595206.The_Name_Is_Archer 3.87 39 70090 3.91 2368 207 219861 0749001992 9780749001995 1 <![CDATA[Blue City]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172805912m/219861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219861.Blue_City 3.63 43 70090 3.91 2368 207 944440 0553071890 9780553071894 3 <![CDATA[Trouble Follows Me]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179677088m/944440.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944440.Trouble_Follows_Me 3.60 35 70090 3.91 2368 207 2081951 0307279065 9780307279064 3 <![CDATA[The Blue Hammer]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2081951.The_Blue_Hammer 4.32 19
Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a brilliant artist who walked into the desert and simply disappeared. He left behind a bevy of muses, molls, dolls, and dames-each one scrambling for what they thought was rightfully theirs.]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 1059386 0553132342 1 <![CDATA[Meet Me at the Morgue]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1059386.Meet_Me_at_the_Morgue 3.50 22 70090 3.91 2368 207 727608 0553635182 0 <![CDATA[The Ferguson Affair]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177706767m/727608.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/727608.The_Ferguson_Affair 3.70 23 70090 3.91 2368 207 805703 0553235141 9780553235142 2 <![CDATA[The Dark Tunnel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188616925m/805703.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/805703.The_Dark_Tunnel 3.43 23 70090 3.91 2368 207 727621 0446359009 9780446359009 3 <![CDATA[The Three Roads]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/727621.The_Three_Roads 3.50 16 70090 3.91 2368 207 1185102 1932009639 9781932009637 1 <![CDATA[The Archer Files, The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181728380m/1185102.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1185102.The_Archer_Files_The_Complete_Short_Stories_of_Lew_Archer_Private_Investigator 4.08 12 70090 3.91 2368 207 224743 0451205960 9780451205964 1 <![CDATA[A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172857252m/224743.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224743.A_Century_of_Noir_Thirty_two_Classic_Crime_Stories 4.18 11
Contents
Introduction by Max Allan Collins
Meanest cop in the world by Chester Himes
Just another stiff by Carroll John Daly
Something for the sweeper by Norbert Davis
I feel bad killing you by Leigh Brackett
Don't look behind you by Fredric Brown
Death comes gift-wrapped by William P. McGivern
Murder for money by John D. MacDonald
Cigarette girl by James M. Cain
Guilt-edged blonde by Ross Macdonald
Gesture by Gil Brewer
Plunge by David Goodis
Tomorrow I die by Mickey Spillane
Never shake a family tree by Donald E. Westlake
Somebody cares by Talmage Powell
Granny woman by Dorothy B. Hughes
Wanted - Dead and alive by Stephen Marlowe
Double take by Richard S. Prather
Real shape of the coast by John Lutz
Dead men don't dream by Evan Hunter
Used by Loren D. Estleman
Busted blossoms by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Kerman kill by William Campbell Gault
Deceptions by Marcia Muller
Nickel Derby by Robert J. Randisi
Reason why by Ed Gorman
No comment by John Jakes
How would you like it? by Lawrence Block
Grace notes by Sara Paretsky
One night at Dolores Park by Bill Pronzini
Dead drunk by Lia Matera
Kaddish for the kid by Max Allan Collins
Lost and found by Benjamin M. Schutz]]> 50948 3.56 1348 123 12014 3.66 3421 457 1151105 3.96 1126 111 7792 4.00 18 3 636187 3.97 34 5 22648 3.77 359 56 51503 4.02 873 103 232697 3.54 48 7 24690 3.87 8122 400 14473 3.88 2959 335 70090 3.91 2368 207 100967 3.69 126 41 7623 3.87 705 92 30953 3.83 4485 543 57044 4.07 45 3 80430 3.80 157 33 107433 3.84 100 19 51492 3.92 253 21 100512 3.57 862 165 96380 3.70 433 45 13371 3.52 600 114 11258 3.82 1460 183 214371 3.85 55 7 644 3.74 3913 303 5092 3.54 329 47 4844 3.88 3431 401 5768 3.90 10090 554 17613 3.75 9882 891 28509 3.75 9915 934 22880 3.57 1024 187 157381 3.20 136 17 242374 3.77 31 4 1786799 0883657007 9780883657003 1 <![CDATA[Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214837498m/1786799.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1786799.Great_Tales_of_Mystery_and_Suspense 4.00 11 Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense.

Introduction by John D. MacDonald
The gold-bug by Edgar Allan Poe
Hunted down by Charles Dickens
The stolen white elephant by Mark Twain
Ransom by Pearl S. Buck
The adventure of the glass-domed clock by Ellery Queen
The arrow of God by Leslie Charteris
A passage to Benares by T.S. Stribling
The case of the emerald sky by Eric Ambler
The other hangman by John Dickson Carr
The couple next door by Margaret Millar
Danger out of the past by Erle Stanley Gardner
A matter of public notice by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
The cat's-paw by Stanley Ellin
The road to Damascus by Michael Gilbert
Midnight blue by Ross MacDonald
I'll die tomorrow by Mickey Spillane
For all the rude people by Jack Ritchie
Hangover by John D. MacDonald
The Santa Claus Club by Julian Symons
The wager by Robert L. Fish
A fool about money by Ngaio Marsh
And three to get ready… by H.L. Gold
"J" by Ed McBain
Burial monuments three by Edward D. Hoch
The murder by Joyce Carol Oates
Fatal woman by Joyce Carol Oates
Agony column by Barry N. Malzberg
Last rendezvous by Jean L. Backus
The real shape of the coast by John Lutz
Hercule Poirot in the year 2010 by Jon L. Breen
Merrill-go-round by Marcia Muller
A craving for originality by Bill Pronzini
Tranquility base by Asa Baber
The cabin in the hollow by Joyce Harrington
Peckerman by Robert S. Phillips
A simple, willing attempt by Elizabeth Morton
Watching Marcia by Mike Resnick
Somebody cares by Talmage Powell
Jode's last hunt by Brian Garfield
Many mansions by Robert Silverberg
My son the murderer by Bernard Malamud

]]> 22880 3.57 1024 187 76288 3.62 500 62 26064 3.56 4910 591 24690 3.87 8122 400 5756 4.10 46480 1881 239579 3.74 207991 10916 1655 3.79 243200 6717 704 3.87 30556 3136 41015 3.73 1147 67 36260 3.77 695 36 160240 3.93 28 1 26006 3.81 902 124 5622 3.64 952 107 8636 3.76 123 30 10214 3.62 3346 152 490350 3.86 29 5 229241 4.00 60 10 146739 3.81 195 19 70090 3.91 2368 207 50948 3.56 1348 123 99538 4.01 87 7 30747 3.80 250 26 302744 3.81 36 8 68144 3.64 3725 241 750447 4.21 68 8 21318 3.70 5361 348 50319 3.76 442 61 3524 3.53 37113 4594 694021 4.00 20 2 100512 3.57 862 165 96116 3.57 182 33 644 3.74 3913 303 1664319 4.06 17 1 575449 3.83 83 8 280170 4.06 50 6 860818 4.10 49 6 54475 3.58 3127 403 57044 4.07 45 3 136876 3.63 134 21 4338 3.77 10788 736 447 3.78 3411 368 1347478 0679764275 9780679764274 1 <![CDATA[The F-Word]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182901205m/1347478.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1347478.The_F_Word 3.67 9 70090 3.91 2368 207 171757 9997402502 9789997402509 0 <![CDATA[Archer at Large: Three Great Lew Archer Novels of Suspense]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171757.Archer_at_Large_Three_Great_Lew_Archer_Novels_of_Suspense 4.17 6 70090 3.91 2368 207 171778 0394508041 9780394508047 0 <![CDATA[Archer in Jeopardy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171778.Archer_in_Jeopardy 3.71 7 70090 3.91 2368 207 1786802 0877953481 9780877953487 0 <![CDATA[The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240669450m/1786802.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1786802.The_Arbor_House_Treasury_of_Mystery_and_Suspense 4.17 6 The gold-bug by Edgar Allan Poe
Hunted down by Charles Dickens
The stolen white elephant by Mark Twain
Ransom by Pearl S. Buck
The adventure of the glass-domed clock by Ellery Queen
The arrow of God by Leslie Charteris
A passage to Benares by T.S. Stribling
The case of the emerald sky by Eric Ambler
The other hangman by John Dickson Carr
The couple next door by Margaret Millar
Danger out of the past by Erle Stanley Gardner
A matter of public notice by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
The cat's-paw by Stanley Ellin
The road to Damascus by Michael Gilbert
Midnight blue by Ross MacDonald
I'll die tomorrow by Mickey Spillane
For all the rude people by Jack Ritchie
Hangover by John D. MacDonald
The Santa Claus club by Julian Symons
The wager by Robert L. Fish
A fool about money by Ngaio Marsh
And three to get ready by H.L. Gold
"J" by Ed McBain
Burial moments three by Edward D. Hoch
The murder ; Fatal woman by Joyce Carol Oates
Agony column by Barry N. Malzberg
Last rendezvous by Jean L. Backus
The real shape of the coast by John Lutz
Hercule Poirot in the year 2010 by Jon L. Breen
Merrill-go-round by Marcia Muller
A craving for originality by Bill Pronzini
Tranquility Base by Asa Baber
The cabin in the hollow by Joyce Harrington
Peckerman by Robert S. Phillips
A simple, willing attempt by Elizabeth Morton
Crime wave in pinhole by Julie Smith
Watching Marcia by Michael D. Resnick
Somebody cares by Talmage Powell
Jode's last hunt by Brian Garfield
Many mansions by Robert Silverberg
My son the murderer by Bernard Malamud]]> 22880 3.57 1024 187 76288 3.62 500 62 26064 3.56 4910 591 24690 3.87 8122 400 5756 4.10 46480 1881 239579 3.74 207991 10916 1655 3.79 243200 6717 704 3.87 30556 3136 41015 3.73 1147 67 36260 3.77 695 36 160240 3.93 28 1 26006 3.81 902 124 5622 3.64 952 107 8636 3.76 123 30 10214 3.62 3346 152 490350 3.86 29 5 229241 4.00 60 10 146739 3.81 195 19 70090 3.91 2368 207 50948 3.56 1348 123 99538 4.01 87 7 30747 3.80 250 26 302744 3.81 36 8 68144 3.64 3725 241 750447 4.21 68 8 21318 3.70 5361 348 50319 3.76 442 61 3524 3.53 37113 4594 694021 4.00 20 2 100512 3.57 862 165 96116 3.57 182 33 644 3.74 3913 303 1664319 4.06 17 1 575449 3.83 83 8 280170 4.06 50 6 860818 4.10 49 6 99237 3.68 1158 72 54475 3.58 3127 403 57044 4.07 45 3 136876 3.63 134 21 4338 3.77 10788 736 447 3.78 3411 368 6594498 1416908110 9781416908111 1 <![CDATA[Grumpy Grandpa]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6594498-grumpy-grandpa 3.40 5 <big><p align="center">I have a grumpy grandpa!

(Shhhhh! Don't tell HIM that!)

A truly loveable and undeniably grumpy book to share with a grandpa, or anyone who's ever felt...grumpy!

]]> 232254 4.13 236 89 70090 3.91 2368 207 666682 0 <![CDATA[Archer in Hollywood: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die, The Barbarous Coast]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666682.Archer_in_Hollywood_The_Moving_Target_The_Way_Some_People_Die_The_Barbarous_Coast 4.00 4 70090 3.91 2368 207 666736 0884961699 9780884961697 1 <![CDATA[Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666736.Self_Portrait_Ceaselessly_into_the_Past 4.33 3 70090 3.91 2368 207 4962411 1 <![CDATA[A Treasury of Modern Mysteries]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1253719425m/4962411.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4962411.A_Treasury_of_Modern_Mysteries 5.00 2 - Agatha Christie, Endless night
- Joyce Carol Oates, Norman and the killer
- George Fox, Kessler, the inside man
- Harry Kemelman, The nine mile walk
- Bill Pronzini, Cain's mark
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis, The purple is everything
- Margery Allingham, The villa Marie Celeste
- Daphne du Maurier, Don't look now
- Donald E. Westlake, Never shake a family tree
- Arthur Porges, The reason
- Thomas Kyd, Cottage for August
- Ross Macdonald, The goodbye look
- Ira Levin, A kiss before dying
- Georges Simenon, Stan the killer
- John D. MacDonald, Hit and run
- James Holding, Second talent
- Stanley Ellin, The house party
- Ian Fleming, The property of a lady
- Truman Capote, In cold blood]]> 2908692 5.00 2 1 123715 3.78 154806 7967 3524 3.53 37113 4594 137677 3.90 30 8 172112 3.65 1053 56 22880 3.57 1024 187 490350 3.86 29 5 30748 3.77 1827 263 2001717 3.98 30273 3626 30953 3.83 4485 543 99542 4.13 52 8 218180 3.39 188 13 70090 3.91 2368 207 8050 3.57 6352 594 9693 3.75 2973 428 24690 3.87 8122 400 948971 3.93 30 5 229241 4.00 60 10 2565 3.60 16801 1241 431149 3.98 76688 4608 1329885 0912264667 9780912264660 0 <![CDATA[On crime writing (Yes! Capra chapbook series ; no. 11)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1329885.On_crime_writing 4.50 2 70090 3.91 2368 207 666739 1885941528 9781885941527 0 <![CDATA[Strangers in Town: Three Newly Discovered Mysteries]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176932217m/666739.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666739.Strangers_in_Town_Three_Newly_Discovered_Mysteries 3.00 2 Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) was, according to The New York Times, the author of "the finest detective novels ever written by an American." His detective, Lew Archer, investigates character and place and the tensions and conflicts that form America. In Ross Macdonald's hands, Lew Archer's home turf, southern California, becomes symbolic and (perhaps more important) emblematic of the human struggle to make things right, to make sense of who we are.

In an important literary discovery, Macdonald biographer, Tom Nolan, unearthed three previously unpublished private-eye stories by Ross Macdonald. "Death by Water," written in 1945, features Macdonald's first detective Joe Rogers, and two novelettes from 1950 and 1955, "Strangers in Town" and "The Angry Man," are detailed cases of Lew Archer.

These `lost' stories help the reader to understand why The New York Times also said that "classify him how you will, Ross Macdonald is one of the best American novelists now operating."

]]> 70090 3.91 2368 207 6500876 0 <![CDATA[Marked for Murder]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6500876-marked-for-murder 4.00 1 70090 3.91 2368 207 394741 1561631035 0 <![CDATA[Ray Bradbury Chronicles Volume 6 (Signed Limited Edition) (6)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394741.Ray_Bradbury_Chronicles_Volume_6 0.0 0 1630 3.92 149214 7552 52923 3.34 367 31 70090 3.91 2368 207 4475169 0394492927 9780394492926 0 <![CDATA[Great Stories of Suspense]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4475169.Great_Stories_of_Suspense 4.00 1 70090 3.91 2368 207 7181797 3257208693 9783257208696 0 <![CDATA[Geld kostet zuviel : Roman.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7181797-geld-kostet-zuviel 2.00 1 70090 3.91 2368 207 6483801 0 <![CDATA[The Guilty Ones]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6483801-the-guilty-ones 0.0 0
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The Persistent House-Hunters [Bechhofer Roberts];
A Case of Catnapping [A. H. Z. Carr];
Tha Long Thin Man [Charles B. Child];
The Couple Next Door [Margaret Millar];
On the Very Street Where You Live [Fred Charap];
The Black Ruby [William D. Gent];
Somebody Has to Make a Move [Ben Benson];
Wild Goose Chase [Ross MacDonald];
Boy For Tea [Ward Green];
The New Administration [Melville Davisson Post];
The Detective [Kristin Field];
Eddy Takes Vanishing Lessons [Todd Capp]]]> 10214 3.62 3346 152 8636 3.76 123 30 70090 3.91 2368 207 5246906 1572701986 9781572701984 0 <![CDATA[The Zebra-Striped Hearse]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5246906.The_Zebra_Striped_Hearse 0.0 0 126791 3.15 13 2 70090 3.91 2368 207 174384 0.0 0 0 2252068 0425160386 9780425160381 0 <![CDATA[Canine Crimes 2]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2252068.Canine_Crimes_2 0.0 0 Canine Crimes II. Culled from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, these often heartwarming, always eerie tales of mystery and suspense will keep you on the edge of your seat--and show you why man's best friend can be a killer's worst enemy.

the 13 stories are:
"Weight and See" by Cyril Hare
"The Dog That Bit You" by Mary Kittredge
"A Long Walk Home" by Stephen Wasylyk
"The Dog in the Orchard" by Mary Roberts Rinehart
"How Come My Dog Don't Bark" by Ron Goulart
"The Sleeping Dog" by Ross MacDonald
"The Watchdog" by Barbara A. Smith
"On Windy Ridge" by Margaret Maron
"The Dog" by Pauline C. Smith
"The Light Next Door" by Charlotte Armstrong
"Late September Dogs" by Gene KoKayKo
"The Dogsbody Case" by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
"Souvenir do Mme. H. Thuret" by Robert Campbell]]> 329614 3.46 24 5 43248 3.46 399 86 70090 3.91 2368 207 781950 5.00 1 1 89400 3.56 173 32 61762 3.80 4848 493 2802471 0.0 0 0 2802472 0.0 0 0 2802473 4.00 1 0 130182 3.31 123 26 154857 3.76 68 5 455909 2.96 28 1 2802474 4.00 1 0 85587 3.56 715 78 6659745 2350120732 9782350120737 0 <![CDATA[Le dictionnaire snob du Rock : Lexique indispensable de connaissance rockologique]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6659745-le-dictionnaire-snob-du-rock 0.0 0 8755 3.63 1238 313 8756 3.75 136 22 70090 3.91 2368 207 1588278 0.0 0 0 3001683 0.0 0 0 7065554 0307427528 9780307427526 0 <![CDATA[The Food Snob's Dictionary]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7065554-the-food-snob-s-dictionary 0.0 0 44137 3.73 30 10 8755 3.63 1238 313 70090 3.91 2368 207