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Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia. Arriving in the sleepy town of Purissima, Archer discovers that orange groves may be where the Hallmans made their mint, but they’ve has been investing heavily in political intimidation and police brutality to shore up their rancid wealth. However, after years of dastardly double-crossing and low down dirty-dealing, the family seem to be on the receiving end of a karmic death-blow. With two dead already and another consigned to the nuthouse, Archer races to crack the secret before another Hallman lands on the slab.Murder, madness and greed grace The Doomsters, where a tony façade masks the rot and corruption within.
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This was the first Ross MacDonald I read, over twenty five years ago. I bought a dog-eared copy of the Fontana paperback from a second hand book-shop, and had low expectations of it,expecting just another Chandleresque California set thriller. I was of course completely wrong. This was one of the best novels I had read in a long time, and I raved about it, pushing it on anyone who would listen, and lending it to all and sundry-until , inevitably, someone didn't return it. When Allison and Busby started re-printing MacDonald's books in the late eighties, they missed this one out, so I was delighted to find it in print again. This book is not typical of the Lew Archer novels. It is the one where Archer is most ''present'' in the story, and has a personal involvement in- and possibly some responsibilty for-the unfolding tragic events. The scene where the killer confesses to Archer, and in the process, unveils the secret history of the doomed and destructive Hallman family, is one of the most powerful and harrowing you will ever read, and more than justifies MacDonald's reputation, not just as an important and influential genre writer, but as one of the truly great American novelists of the second half of the last century.
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Macdonald had a special ability to powerfully suggest the look and feel of a place or a life's vicissitudes with a cleverly chosen phrase, not least his protagonists enigmatic character. The intergenerational discontents tearing apart a dysfunctional family of wealthy Californian citrus farmers underlies a tale of murder, greed and madness.
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Macdonald's major attempt to break away from his earlier style in the Chandler mould. Here his own voice comes to the fore. Like earlier books Archer helps a stranger and becomes involved in past events which echo elements from his own damaged past. Add an unsolved murder and the pieces are in place for an excellent book in the Lew Archer series. A complex satisfying read
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