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The Moving Target
by Ross Macdonald
Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping.
Year: 1949
Genre: Hardboiled Detective, Kidnapping, Private Eye
The Drowning Pool
by Ross Macdonald
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.
Year: 1950
Genre: Murder Mystery, Private Eye
The Way Some People Die
by Ross Macdonald
In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts.Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series.
Year: 1951
Genre: Hardboiled Detective, Missing Person, Private Eye
The Ivory Grin
by Ross Macdonald
Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever.
Year: 1952
Genre: Hardboiled Detective, Private Eye
Find a Victim
by Ross Macdonald
Las Cruces wasn't a place most travelers would think to stop. But after private investigator Lew Archer plays the good samaritan and picks up a bloodied hitchhiker, he finds himself in town for a few days awaiting a murder inquest. And as the murder rate rises, Archer finds himself caught up in mystery where everyone is a suspect and everyone's a victim.
Year: 1954
Genre: Hardboiled Detective, Private Eye
| Got It | Want It | Read It | Year | Title | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1949 | The Moving Target | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1950 | The Drowning Pool | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1951 | The Way Some People Die | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1952 | The Ivory Grin | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1954 | Find a Victim | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1956 | The Barbarous Coast | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1958 | The Doomsters | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1959 | The Galton Case | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1961 | The Wycherly Woman | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1962 | The Zebra-Striped Hearse | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1963 | The Chill | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1965 | The Far Side of the Dollar | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1966 | Black Money | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1968 | The Instant Enemy | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1969 | The Goodbye Look | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1971 | The Underground Man | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1973 | Sleeping Beauty | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1976 | The Blue Hammer | by Ross Macdonald | ||||||
