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The Underground Man

A Lew Archer Novel

A Lew Archer Novel

By Ross Macdonald

By Ross Macdonald

By Ross Macdonald

By Ross Macdonald

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Part of Lew Archer Series

Part of Lew Archer Series

Paperback $15.00

Nov 26, 1996 | ISBN 9780679768081

Ebook $9.99

Dec 01, 2010 | ISBN 9780307773142

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    About The Underground Man

    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.

    If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, it was 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 predecessors 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.

    About The Underground Man

    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.

    If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, it was 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 predecessors 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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    Also by Ross Macdonald

    Blue City
    The Three Roads
    Meet Me at the Morgue
    The Ferguson Affair
    The Blue Hammer
    See all books by Ross Macdonald

    About Ross Macdonald

    Ross Macdonald’s real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Millar returned to the US as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the… More about Ross Macdonald

    About Ross Macdonald

    Ross Macdonald’s real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Millar returned to the US as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the… More about Ross Macdonald

    Product Details

    Category: Noir Mysteries | Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Nov 26, 1996 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679768081

    Category: Noir Mysteries | Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Dec 01, 2010 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780307773142

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    Praise

    “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

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