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The Chill

Ross Macdonald

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English
Penguin
19 September 2012
One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time

Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that his new bride, Dolly, has gone missing. Snapped by a hotel photographer on the day of their wedding, the beautiful girl vanished only hours after and Alex has heard nothing since. But when Archer begins digging, he finds evidence that links Dolly to brutal murders that span two decades, and a terrible secret.

In this byzantine and compelling tale, Ross Macdonald explores the darkest experiences that can bind a family together - and tear it apart.

Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William Goldman, Jonathan Kellerman, Eudora Welty and Elmore Leonard.
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   259g
ISBN:   9780141196619
ISBN 10:   0141196610
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   352
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

MacDonald served as president of The Mystery Writers of America in 1965, received the Silver Dagger in 1964 and the Gold Dagger in 1965 from The British Crime Writers Association, and in 1981, received The Eye, the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Private Eye Writers of America.

Reviews for The Chill

The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American -- William Goldman Ross MacDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books -- James Ellroy America's greatest crime writer -- Elmore Leonard A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were -- Eudora Welty A master of structure and story... a writer of immense grace, sensitivity and insight -- Jonathan Kellerman


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