- Paperback: 279 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books; 1st Vintage Books/Black Lizard Ed edition (Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679768076
- ISBN-13: 978-0679768074
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 1.5 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 846,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer.
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'Ross Macdonald remains the Grand Master of Southern California noir; the Lew Archer novels providing a template for almost all the crime fiction that followed. Put the Hammett and Chandler away. Macdonald rules.' Tony Bourdain
This is hard boiled crime, and Ross Macdonald at his very best.
Detective Lew Archer has been asked to look for Dolly, a missing wife, but while searching he uncovers other crimes and casualties that had been hiddend for decades.
The Chill covers Macdonald's favourite theme: how the sins of the father shall be visited upon the second and third generations, and how a seed planted by an act decades earlier can sprout in the present, destroying those who are otherwise innocent.
The Chill is extraordinarilly chilling, with a conclusion that will stay with you long after you have finished it.
Ross Macdonald, pseudonym of Kenneth Millar, was one of America's best hard-boiled crime writers, along with Hammett and Chandler, and is often credited in bringing the detective novel into the literary mainstream. Born in California in 1915, he was raised and educated in Canada, and wrote over 25 novels. He was particularly intrigued by personal identity, family relationships, childhood trauma, why men and women need to battle each other, how the past rises to confront the present and the twisted secrets of the human heart. He died in 1983. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Some of Macdonald's best dialogue propels this mystery, populated by sympathetic characters. Macdonald's acerbic familiarity with academia's incestuous jealousies gives this tale of lost hopes and destroyed dreams resonance. Yet, I must confess to finding his usually faultless plotting not quite on the money in this case, perhaps due to the disjuncture between the industrial midwest where the tragedy originates and the coastal college where it is resolved.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Noir fiction often has tested barriers and taboos. This Lew Archer novel is in that tradition in that it doesn't break any taboos, but it does hint at it. If THE CHILL were written today, I think it would have been a bit more direct.
As with many Lew Archer cases, this one starts innocently enough with his being hired to find a missing newlywed who's disappeared after an encounter with a mysterious visitor. In a short period of time, he's involved in a murder case, one in which he feels a vague sense of being responsible. There are the usual twists, the usual questions of identity, the interconnection of characters which doesn't at first meet the eye.
MacDonald characters are difficult to pigeonhole into "good" or "bad" categories. The motivations often come from deeply within the psyches of the characters.
The emphasis in this story as well as most in the series is on the puzzle. There are seldom recurring characters in these novels, and little interaction other than investigative betwee Archer and the other characters. And as always, the dark corners of human nature are well probed.
Definitely highly recommended.
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Ross Macdonald's only peer in high quality, literate private eye crime fictionmay be Raymond Chandler, and it can easily be debated that the two are equals. This is an excellently read version of one of Ross Macdonald's best known Lew Archer novels with a beautifully woven plot that never fails to grip. Archer's humanity and integrity in a corrupt world are a strong feature that is wholly believable and takes the listener with it. Highly recommended.
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