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The Chill
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...more
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Lots o' fun. In my teens & early 20s I was really into Ross Macdonald, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. Been ages since I read any of them. Reading this made me want to dive back into all of them. Macdonald's Lew Archer's more cerebral than I remember Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe being, but I reckon I'll just have to reread those guys to be sure.
I love Ross MacDonald. If Hammett creates an immoral world, and Chandler's universe is amoral, MacDonald creates moral characters adrift in an amoral sea. Stunning prose, gripping drama, and more fabulous dames than you can shake a stick at, buddy.
I love MacDonald's books, with his compassionate detective (Lew Archer) tracking down the source of mysteries that almost always turn out to be ancient family tragedies. (When Archer comes across a piece of information that happened twenty or thirty years ago, that's when you know you're on the trail.)
This may be his best -- in any case, it's got a...more
One of the best of Macdonald's Lew Archer novels. My only complaint is that the characters became a little difficult to keep track of late in the book, but that may have been more due to my reading habits than to Macdonald. In any event, a wonderful entry in the series.
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