Authors > Ross Macdonald
The Drowning Pool
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred--and sufficient motive for a dozen murders.
Year: 1950
Genre: Hardboiled, Murder Mystery, Private Eye
The Galton Case
Anthony Galton disappeared almost 20 years ago. Now his aging--and very rich--mother has hired Lew Archer to bring him back. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a suspicious heir, and a con man whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them.
Year: 1959
Genre: Missing Person, Private Eye
The Chill
In The Chill a distraught young man hires private investigator Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet.
Year: 1963
Genre: Cold Case, Missing Person, Private Eye
The Underground Man
The Underground Man is a detective novel of merciless suspense and tragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of California's version of the American dream.
Year: 1971
Genre: Private Eye
NON-SERIES Novels
| Year | Title | Genres & Tags | |||
| 1947 | Blue City | Hardboiled | |||
SERIES: Lew Archer
