Ross Macdonald, né Kenneth Millar, était un maître américain-canadien de la fiction policière, surtout connu pour ses romans 'hardboiled' mettant en scène le détective Lew Archer. Son œuvre s'appuie sur le style concis de ses prédécesseurs, en y insufflant une profonde profondeur psychologique et des explorations complexes des motivations des personnages. Les intrigues de Macdonald dévoilent souvent des secrets de famille complexes, explorant les dynamiques cachées de ses clients et des criminels qu'ils rencontrent. Il a habilement combiné le whodunit traditionnel avec des éléments de thriller psychologique, offrant aux lecteurs des mystères méticuleusement élaborés aux dénouements surprenants.
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. In The Drowning Pool , 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.
À Malibu, le Channel Club est un endroit très sélect : les milliardaires de Hollywood viennent y faire trempette et de jolies filles comme Hester Campbell et Gabrielle Torres y font des plongeons. Deux ans plus tôt, Gabrielle y a d'ailleurs fait le dernier plongeon de sa carrière : la police a retrouvé son corps sur la plage de Malibu, mais pas son assassin. Il est vrai que l'enquête fut discrète : au Channel Club, on n'aime pas tellement ce genre de publicité. Cette fois, c'est Hester qui a disparu sans laisser d'adresse, et pour la retrouver, le détective Lew Archer va à son tour plonger dans un monde qui n'est pas toujours très sélect.
With its roots in the American private-detective fiction of the 1920s but traceable back as far as Sherlock Holmes, the private-eye story remains as popular as ever. Here are thirty of the finest short novels and stories from the hardboiled world of the private eye. The characters in this collection range from the tough, cynical, hard-drinking Philip Marlowe type to hard-hitting female sleuths and the one-armed intellectual Dan Fortune. This collection features old favorites and new contributions from masters of the genre, past and present, including Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Michael Collins, Ed McBain, William Campbell Gault, and many more.
It's 1945. Ensign Sam Drake attends a party on his last night stationed in Hawaii and meets the woman of his dreams. But before the night is out, her best friend is dead in an upstairs room at the party. It appears to be suicide.The next day Sam starts his leave before receiving a new post. He returns to his home town of Detroit, and decides to check into a connection there between the dead woman and a radical group of black activists. Another death quickly follows and Sam finds himself on a cross-country adventure, haunted by dangerous characters everywhere he turns.
No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on—a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person—the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Archer dug up secrets and bodies in and around Los Angeles. Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished “case notes” and a fascinating biographical profile of Archer by Edgar Award finalist Tom Nolan. Ross Macdonald’s signature staccato prose is the real star throughout this collection, which is both a perfect introduction for the newcomer and a must-have for the Macdonald aficionado.
When rich boy Peter Jamieson's fiancee suddenly breaks their engagement, Peter hires private detective Lew Archer to investigate the woman's mysterious French lover
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 tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written, Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best. If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.
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