Ross MacDonald

A hitchhiker stumbles to his knees on the side of a dark road. Private detective Lew Archer stops his car. When he gets to the young man, Archer realizes that he has stumbled into a mess—for the hitchhiker is dying of a gunshot wound. In a matter of hours, Archer is suspected by the law, hired...

In this masterful Macdonald mystery, the desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness, and only Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. The era is the 1970s, the settin, Southern California. Private investigator Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a...

Meet Me at the Morgue is the story of a kidnapping that led to four murders. In his search for the killer, Howard Cross digs deep into the Los Angeles underworld, finding along the way a beautiful, lost adolescent mourning a dead lover, a suitcase hidden under an aging sadist’s bed, and a...

Sleeping Beauty plunges private detective Lew Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the southern California coast. It leads Archer into a load of trouble involving ransom, a lethal dose of Nembutal, the death of a stranger found floating off shore...

Ross Macdonald is one of the “Big Three” in American hard-boiled detective fiction, along with Chandler and Hammett. In The Barbarous Coast, tough, thoughtful private eye Lew Archer pursues a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living. Archer’s investigation leads him...

Manchmal scheint Privatdetektiv Lew Archer das Unheil geradezu anzuziehen: Im Motel, wo er in Ruhe ausschlafen wollte, wird er unversehens Zeuge eines brutalen Mordes. Alle Angestellten wollen weder etwas gehört noch gesehen haben. Der Besitzer droht ihm, lieber nicht zu viele Frage zu stellen...