Lew Archer Series

18 primary works • 37 total works
Lew Archer, an ex-cop and private investigator, in Los Angeles, California:

Book 0.3

The Name Is Archer
3.91
· 1406 Ratings · 64 Reviews · published 1955 · 32 editions
MYSTERY

Includes the following stories:
Find the wom…
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Book 1

The Moving Target
3.80
· 5016 Ratings · 534 Reviews · published 1949 · 1 edition
Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph …
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Book 2

The Drowning Pool
3.93
· 7479 Ratings · 359 Reviews · published 1950 · 103 editions
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating fac…
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Book 3

The Way Some People Die
4.02
· 3152 Ratings · 274 Reviews · published 1951 · 59 editions
In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel La…
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Book 4

The Ivory Grin
3.98
· 2722 Ratings · 214 Reviews · published 1952 · 1 edition
A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and d…
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Book 5

Find a Victim
3.94
· 1726 Ratings · 186 Reviews · published 1954 · 73 editions
Las Cruces wasn’t a place most travelers would thi…
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Book 6

The Barbarous Coast
3.86
· 1737 Ratings · 171 Reviews · published 1956 · 74 editions
The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dr…
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Book 7

The Doomsters
3.92
· 1528 Ratings · 166 Reviews · published 1958 · 64 editions
Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie s…
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Book 8

The Galton Case
4.07
· 4194 Ratings · 387 Reviews · published 1959 · 93 editions
私家侦探卢·阿彻受律师委托,寻找某豪门巨族离奇失踪二十年的儿子。此人在法律上早已被认定为死亡,多年来…
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Book 9

The Wycherly Woman
4.07
· 1512 Ratings · 150 Reviews · published 1961 · 60 editions
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her …
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Book 10

The Zebra-Striped Hearse
4.10
· 2743 Ratings · 250 Reviews · published 1962 · 75 editions
Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to …
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Book 11

The Chill
4.07
· 4740 Ratings · 472 Reviews · published 1964 · 95 editions
In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer t…
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Book 12

The Far Side of the Dollar
4.08
· 1865 Ratings · 147 Reviews · published 1965 · 2 editions
Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform…
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Book 13

Black Money
3.95
· 2446 Ratings · 232 Reviews · published 1966 · 12 editions
When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the s…
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Book 14

The Instant Enemy
4.04
· 1086 Ratings · 140 Reviews · published 1968 · 61 editions
Lew Archer is back, careening down the bloody trai…
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Book 15

The Goodbye Look
3.96
· 1787 Ratings · 161 Reviews · published 1969 · 87 editions
In The Goodbye Look , Lew Archer is hired to inves…
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Book 16

The Underground Man
3.94
· 2589 Ratings · 264 Reviews · published 1971 · 93 editions
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above…
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Book 17

Sleeping Beauty
3.90
· 1302 Ratings · 146 Reviews · published 1973 · 1 edition
In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the c…
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Book 18

The Blue Hammer
4.00
· 2274 Ratings · 197 Reviews · published 1976 · 91 editions
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death…
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Book 1, 3, 6

Archer in Hollywood: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die, The Barbarous Coast
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Book 1, 5

Pohyblivý terč / Nájdi obeť
Pohyblivý terč : pátrání soukromého detektiva L.Ar…
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Book 2–5

Sunset boulevard
0.00
· published 1992 · 1 edition
Contiene:
- Il vortice
- Non piangete per chi ha u…
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Book 2–8

Le Sette Fatiche di Lew Archer
In mezzo alla folla dei «colleghi», Archer rimane …
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Book 2, 11, 15

The Lew Archer Omnibus
4.67
· 12 Ratings · published 1993 · 3 editions
This first volume of Lew Archer novels presents "T…
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Book 3, 6, 7, 8

Four Novels of the 1950s: The Way Some People Die / The Barbarous Coast / The Doomsters / The Galton Case
Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafto…
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Book 4, 10, 16

Archer, P. I.: The Ivory Grin / The Zebra Striped Hearse / The Underground Man
1990 Mystery Guild hardcover, Ross MacDonald (The …
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Book 6, 10

Barbarské pobrežie / Bilelopruhované pohrebné auto
Barbarské pobřeží - V této knize detektiv pátrá na…
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Book 7, 10, 14

Archer in Jeopardy: The Doomsters, The Zebra-Striped Hearse, & The Instant Enemy
Brings together three of the acclaimed mystery wri…
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Book 8, 11, 13

Archer at Large
4.17
· 65 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1970 · 14 editions
Fictional Novel; Literary Fiction
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Book 10–12

Three Novels of the Early 1960s: The Zebra-Striped Hearse / The Chill / The Far Side of the Dollar
In 1949 Kenneth Millar, then writing as John Macdo…
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Book 13–16

Four Later Novels: Black Money / The Instant Enemy / The Goodbye Look / The Underground Man
“Detective fiction,” Ross Macdonald (the pseudonym…
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Book 14, 7, 11

Nestaň sa hneď nepriateľom / Sudičky / Chlad
Nestaň sa hneď nepriateľom : Soukromý detektiv Lew…
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Book 15, 18

Прощален поглед / Пулсираща вена
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Book 17, 10

Šípková Růženka - Bíle pruhovaný pohřební vůz
Dvě detektivky proslulého autora se odehrávají v p…
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Book 17, 2

Спящая красавица. Смерть в бассейне
Молодая красавица из богатого, могущественного кал…
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Strangers in Town: Three Newly Discovered Mysteries
3.40
· 42 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2001 · 4 editions
`LOST' STORIES BY A MASTER

Ross Macdonald (1915-19…

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The Archer Files, The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator Including Newly Discovered Case Notes
Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) was the author of eight…
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