Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald’s real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983.
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The Way Some People Die
eBook | 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-77286-2 (0-307-77286-1)
December 29, 2010 | $13.99
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. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-77286-2 (0-307-77286-1)
December 29, 2010 | $13.99
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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. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a...
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The Chill
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-75959-7 (0-307-75959-8)
December 22, 2010 | $13.99
In The Chill a distraught young man hires 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. What ensues is a detective novel...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-75959-7 (0-307-75959-8)
December 22, 2010 | $13.99
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In The Chill a distraught young man hires 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. What ensues is a detective novel...
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The Wycherly Woman
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-77317-3 (0-307-77317-5)
December 22, 2010 | $13.99
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. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-77317-3 (0-307-77317-5)
December 22, 2010 | $13.99
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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. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the...
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The Moving Target
eBook | 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-77318-0 (0-307-77318-3)
December 8, 2010 | $11.99
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.
As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-77318-0 (0-307-77318-3)
December 8, 2010 | $11.99
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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.
As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries...
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trade paperback.
The Ferguson Affair
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-74079-3 (0-307-74079-X)
December 7, 2010 | $17.00
It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail. Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the trip—fast. He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the...
Written by Ross Macdonald
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-74079-3 (0-307-74079-X)
December 7, 2010 | $17.00
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It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail. Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the trip—fast. He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the...
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eBook.
The Ferguson Affair
eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-74078-6 (0-307-74078-1)
December 7, 2010 | $12.99
It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail. Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the trip—fast. He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-74078-6 (0-307-74078-1)
December 7, 2010 | $12.99
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It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail. Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the trip—fast. He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the...
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trade paperback.
Meet Me at the Morgue
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-74077-9 (0-307-74077-3)
December 7, 2010 | $17.00
Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her...
Written by Ross Macdonald
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-74077-9 (0-307-74077-3)
December 7, 2010 | $17.00
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Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her...
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eBook.
Meet Me at the Morgue
eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-74075-5 (0-307-74075-7)
December 7, 2010 | $12.99
Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-74075-5 (0-307-74075-7)
December 7, 2010 | $12.99
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Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Find a Victim
eBook | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-77333-3 (0-307-77333-7)
December 1, 2010 | $12.99
Las Cruces wasn’t a place most travelers would think to stop. But after 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. A hijacked truck full of liquor and an evidence box full of marijuana...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | 224 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-77333-3 (0-307-77333-7)
December 1, 2010 | $12.99
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Las Cruces wasn’t a place most travelers would think to stop. But after 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. A hijacked truck full of liquor and an evidence box full of marijuana...
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trade paperback.
The Goodbye Look
eBook | 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-77262-6 (0-307-77262-4)
December 1, 2010 | $12.99
In The Goodbye Look, Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a family with money and memories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-77262-6 (0-307-77262-4)
December 1, 2010 | $12.99
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In The Goodbye Look, Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a family with money and memories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he...
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trade paperback.
Sleeping Beauty
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-77263-3 (0-307-77263-2)
December 1, 2010 | $13.99
In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a
wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-77263-3 (0-307-77263-2)
December 1, 2010 | $13.99
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In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a
wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful...
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trade paperback.
The Underground Man
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Adventure
978-0-307-77314-2 (0-307-77314-0)
December 1, 2010 | $13.99
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, 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...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Adventure
978-0-307-77314-2 (0-307-77314-0)
December 1, 2010 | $13.99
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As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, 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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Blue Hammer
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-77349-4 (0-307-77349-3)
November 17, 2010 | $13.99
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but that was before...
Written by Ross Macdonald
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
978-0-307-77349-4 (0-307-77349-3)
November 17, 2010 | $13.99
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The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but that was before...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Food Snob's Dictionary
eBook | 144 pages | Clarkson Potter | Cooking - Essays
978-0-307-42752-6 (0-307-42752-8)
November 4, 2009 | $10.99
Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjects
From the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob’s Dictionary and The Rock...
eBook | 144 pages | Clarkson Potter | Cooking - Essays
978-0-307-42752-6 (0-307-42752-8)
November 4, 2009 | $10.99
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Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjects
From the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob’s Dictionary and The Rock...
Boys of Steel
Hardcover | 40 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-375-83802-6 (0-375-83802-3)
July 22, 2008 | $19.99
JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent—meek, mild, and myopic—than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote stories, and Joe illustrated them. In 1934, they created a superhero who...
Hardcover | 40 pages | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Juvenile Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-375-83802-6 (0-375-83802-3)
July 22, 2008 | $19.99
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JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent—meek, mild, and myopic—than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote stories, and Joe illustrated them. In 1934, they created a superhero who...
