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The Barbarous Coast

by Ross Macdonald
Grover Gardner
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Ross Macdonald is one of the "Big Three" in American hard-boiled detective fiction, along with Chandler and Hammett. In The Barbarous Coast, tough, thoughtful private eye Lew Archer pursues a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living. Archer's investigation leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract, a big-time gambler who died by his own knife, and finally, to an answer he would rather not have known.

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Series: Lew Archer Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged
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  • ISBN: 9781481558402
  • File size: 202224 KB
  • Release date: June 22, 2005
  • Duration: 07:01:17
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Fiction Mystery

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Ross Macdonald is one of the "Big Three" in American hard-boiled detective fiction, along with Chandler and Hammett. In The Barbarous Coast, tough, thoughtful private eye Lew Archer pursues a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living. Archer's investigation leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract, a big-time gambler who died by his own knife, and finally, to an answer he would rather not have known.

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Fiction Mystery