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The young Lennox heiress - glimpsed for a haunting moment on the beach, clutching an oil-drenched sea bird in her arms - has disappeared, and while on her trail, Archer finds himself journeying into the hidden lives of a family twisted by money, power, and a compulsive instinct for infidelity.
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- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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The Blue Hammer
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- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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As private eye Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you can get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, misdirected love, and family hatred into an explosive crime novel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good, not great start to a terrific series.
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The Ivory Grin
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A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he’s being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks the wayward maid to a ramshackle motel in a seedy, run-down small town, but finds her dead in her tiny room, with her throat slit from ear to ear. Archer digs deeper into the case and discovers a web of deceit and intrigue, with crazed number-runners from Detroit, gorgeous triple-crossing molls, and a golden-boy shipping heir who’s gone mysteriously missing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A classic that still works
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The Galton Case
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Almost 20 years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family’s fortune. Now Anthony’s aging and very rich mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton’s son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them.
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Dances down the same streets as Hammett & Chandler
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Hard Boiled, Right Down the Line
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The Barbarous Coast
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 65
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In The Barbarous Coast, Lew Archer's pursuit of a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract, a big-time gambler who died by his own knife, and finally to an answer he would rather not have known.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good as it gets
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The Drowning Pool
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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. Private investigator 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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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the reader captures the feel of the noir detective
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Meet Me at the Morgue
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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 slovenly gentleman with an ice pick in his neck. Ross MacDonald has never written a story quite like this, and neither has anyone else.
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The Glass Key
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Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett’s tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness. A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett invented the noir crime novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pacing Quick & Plot was Goldilocks
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The Dark Tunnel
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Doctor Robert Branch was a university professor, not a secret agent. But his best friend was dead and Branch knew that it couldn't have been suicide. He was also certain that the murder had been arranged by a Nazi espionage group operating on campus. The only trouble was, no one would believe him. Branch knew that the Nazis would have him eliminated as soon as it was convenient.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read Lew Archer series first
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The Big Sleep
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,248
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Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Class Noir
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Dachshund Through the Snow
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Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, have started a new Christmas tradition. Their local pet store has a Christmas tree, where instead of ornaments there are wishes from those in need. One poignant wish leads Andy to a child named Danny, whose selfless plea strikes a chord. Danny asked Santa for a coat for his mother, a sweater for his dachshund, Murphy, and for the safe return of his missing father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tried to make it last.
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Publisher's Summary
Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the suntanned skin of Southern California's high society.
Critic Reviews
"A beautiful job...rich in plot and character....The denouement is both surprising and shocking and the whole is up to Mr. Macdonald's extraordinarily high standards." ( New York Times Book Review)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Peter
- 03-30-11
Good book, great reader
Ross Macdonald is a personal favourite of mine and I am happy his novels are available as audiobooks. Black Money is not one of the greatest Lew Archer novels but it is interesting enough, especially when you are interested in private-eye tales of the Golden Era. Grover Gardner is a perfect reader for this genre, hearing his voice, Lew Archer comes to live right before your eyes. And since these books are full of dialogue, Gardner masters all characters and accents, social classes and etnic accents. I was very pleased with this book and only hope Audible gives access to more of the Ross Macdonald/Lew Archer novels; There are sixteen but only eight are available for members from Europe. A shame!
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-30-19
Superb.
One of the best novels ever written in any country and in any century. I've read the novel a couple of times before and this is the first time I listen to the audiobook. Excellent performance.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Robert Woods
- 06-27-18
Marvelous, old school detective novel!
Lew Archer is a detective who has a keen insight into human nature and human behavior.
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- Patrick
- 08-16-16
Solid Mystery
Decent flow and build up of characters. The twist/solution was pretty good.
I'd listen to almost anything Grover Gardner narrates.
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- Mark
- 05-18-16
Good but not great
Some critics say this is the best of the Archer books. I don't see it. I have enjoyed others more than this one and see more literary skill in them. This book may be admired by academic critics since it involves professors, literature, and philosophical ideas.
Good as always. Macdonald as in all the books delivers a taut and engrossing story that speaks volumes about the California of the 50s and 60s.
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- G. Sabin
- 08-05-11
Sanguine '60s Noire
Ross Mac was a pretty decent storyteller. His plot line unravels well, the characters are chiseled out like stone monuments, and there's just enough sex and death to keep even James Ellroy fans intrigued.
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- Book Dad
- 02-17-18
Ugh: bland, tedious untrue to the genre
I've read this clunker twice over the years, tempted by the cover, a sucker for a good noire story, and wanting to give RM one more chance. This one is so tedious, awash in uninteresting characters, virtually no action, and a convoluted story. It almost seems like it was written by a computer algorithm. It just goes on and on without spice or dramatic punctuation. Really truly don't bother.