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The Underground Man (Lew Archer Series, Book #16)
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The Underground Man (Lew Archer Series, Book #16) Paperback - 1996

by Macdonald, Ross

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As a mysterious fire rages through an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing--and possibly kidnapped--child and uncovers and entire secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder. Along with its merciless suspense, The Underground Man possesses a moral vision as complex as that of a classic Greek tragedy.

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The Underground Man (Lew Archer Series, Book #16) by Ross Macdonald 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 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. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Softcover, 1971, 1996
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  • Title The Underground Man (Lew Archer Series, Book #16)
  • Author Macdonald, Ross
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, New York, NY
  • Date 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 118
  • ISBN 9780679768081 / 0679768084
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.94 x 5.13 x 0.63 in (20.17 x 13.03 x 1.60 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators - California - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97120675
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar.  Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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 Silver Dagger Award.  He died in 1983.

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"A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were."- Eudora Welty

"Ross Macdonald is an important American novelist!"- San Francisco Chronicle

"I should like to venture that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either... Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler."-  Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review

About the author

Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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 Silver Dagger Award. He died in 1983.