The Dark Tunnel
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The Chill
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Lew Archer knew he shouldn't have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate. Kincaid's loving new bride, Dolly, had just inexplicably walked out on him, leaving Kincaid more than a little fearful for her sanity and her safety. So Archer reluctantly agreed to help Kincaid find his wife.
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good entree to the Hard Boiled
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The Far Side of the Dollar
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Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with tycoons and hustlers? The once-popular palace is now boarded up. But for Archer, it may hold the key to a missing teenager and a hot murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Ivory Grin
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- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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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
- By james on 06-15-13
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The Blue Hammer
- By: Ross MacDonald
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- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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The era is the 1970s; the setting is Southern California. Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of the celebrated Richard Chantry, who vanished in 1950 from his home in Santa Teresa. It is the portrait of an unknown woman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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McDonald still has it!
- By Karen Nash on 04-08-07
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The Zebra-Striped Hearse
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- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all, Ross Macdonald's private eye is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose path seems to keep crossing the son-in-law's - and Archer's - in this powerful, fast-paced novel of murder on the California coast.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lew Archer at his best
- By Richard on 09-19-14
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Sleeping Beauty
- A Lew Archer novel
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- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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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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The Chill
- By: Ross MacDonald
- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 104
Lew Archer knew he shouldn't have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate. Kincaid's loving new bride, Dolly, had just inexplicably walked out on him, leaving Kincaid more than a little fearful for her sanity and her safety. So Archer reluctantly agreed to help Kincaid find his wife.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good entree to the Hard Boiled
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The Far Side of the Dollar
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with tycoons and hustlers? The once-popular palace is now boarded up. But for Archer, it may hold the key to a missing teenager and a hot murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Ivory Grin
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- By: Ross Macdonald
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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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
- By james on 06-15-13
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The Blue Hammer
- By: Ross MacDonald
- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
The era is the 1970s; the setting is Southern California. Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of the celebrated Richard Chantry, who vanished in 1950 from his home in Santa Teresa. It is the portrait of an unknown woman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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McDonald still has it!
- By Karen Nash on 04-08-07
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The Zebra-Striped Hearse
- A Lew Archer Novel
- By: Ross Macdonald
- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all, Ross Macdonald's private eye is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose path seems to keep crossing the son-in-law's - and Archer's - in this powerful, fast-paced novel of murder on the California coast.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lew Archer at his best
- By Richard on 09-19-14
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Find a Victim
- A Lew Archer Novel
- By: Ross Macdonald
- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
When Lew Archer stops for a hitchhiker and finds a young man dying of a gunshot wound, he knows he has stumbled into a mess. In a matter of hours he is suspected by the law, hired by a target-shooting trucking magnate, and chasing a hijacked load of hooch and a band of sinners on the loose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard Boiled, Right Down the Line
- By G. Sabin on 03-31-18
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The Glass Key
- By: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 171
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Story4 out of 5 stars 174
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
- By Darwin8u on 05-16-12
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The Underground Man
- A Lew Archer Novel
- By: Ross Macdonald
- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder - and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ross Macdonald in Top Form
- By Rich S. on 01-15-13
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The Moving Target
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- By: Ross Macdonald
- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Story4 out of 5 stars 141
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.
- By Richard on 01-03-12
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The Galton Case
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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Dances down the same streets as Hammett & Chandler
- By Darwin8u on 06-26-14
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The Barbarous Coast
- By: Ross MacDonald
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- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
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
- By R. Reimschuessel on 06-01-19
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The Wycherly Woman
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- By: Ross Macdonald
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- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly—or for someone to make her disappear. And before he could locate the Wycherly girl, Archer had to reckon with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe’s mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who kept too many residences, had too many secrets, and left too many corpses in her wake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Boring
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The Dain Curse
- By: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 163
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Story4 out of 5 stars 151
The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Literary IMPOSSIBLE bottle.
- By Darwin8u on 05-12-12
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The Maltese Falcon
- By: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,439
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 902
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Story4 out of 5 stars 897
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade is hired to locate a client's sister by tailing the sister's companion. Spade's partner Miles Archer takes on the assignment, and quickly both Archer and the man he was shadowing are murdered. As Spade pursues the mystery of his partner's death, he is drawn into a circle of colorful characters, and they are all after a legendary statuette of a falcon that had long ago been made for King Charles of Spain. Encrusted with jewels, it is worth a fortune.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Play it again, Sam.
- By Christopher on 04-01-04
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Black Money
- A Lew Archer Novel
- By: Ross Macdonald
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4 out of 5 stars 73
When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good book, great reader
- By Peter on 03-30-11
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The Drowning Pool
- A Lew Archer Novel
- By: Ross Macdonald
- Narrated by: Tom Parker
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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
- By Charles P on 06-21-18
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Meet Me at the Morgue
- By: Ross Macdonald
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic crime noir
- By Arnold on 06-20-12
Publisher's Summary
The Dark Tunnel was originally published in 1944 under Ross Macdonald's real name, Kenneth Millar.
Critic Reviews
"Ross Macdonald gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did." (Chicago Tribune)
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- Richard
- 11-05-14
Read Lew Archer series first
Written during WWII, Ross MacDonald's spy thriller is only partly satisfying. The plot is only so-so and the protagonist is less than believable, but the distinctive writing style clearly establishes MacDonald as a force to be reckoned with. As a writer, MacDonald only comes into his own in the Lew Archer series. Readers new to MacDonald should read all of the Lew Archer books first. After that, savor this little book for what it is: a early effort by someone who would go on to be a great writer.
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