- Fiction, Private investigators, Lew Archer (Fictitious character), Large type books
Phoebe Wycherly -- twenty-one, rich, and beautiful -- has been missing for two months when her father, Homer, hires private investigator Lew Archer to locate her. The girl was last seen leaving the San Francisco docks after seeing her father off on a cruise.
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- Author
- Ross Macdonald
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- Librairie Arthème Fayard, J. Curley & Associates, Scherz
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, Swedish, Italian, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9780375701443
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Ross Macdonald was the main pseudonym used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works (particularly the Archer novels) have received attention in academic circles for their psychological depth, sense of place, use of language, sophisticated imagery and integration of philosophy into genre fiction. Brought up in the province of Ontario, Canada, Macdonald eventually settled in the state of California, where he died in 1983.
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