- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Allison & Busby; New edition edition (26 Sep 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749002069
- ISBN-13: 978-0749002060
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,865,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is one of MacDonald's shatterproof constructs dealing more or less with the sins of the fathers - and mothers - and in particular with Stan Broadhurst who leaves his wife and son with another girl and is presumably looking for his father who also disappeared with another woman. It is so entangled you might as well give up in the first chapter when you're still ahead but you won't. It's Lew Archer again who did so stupendously well in The Goodbye Look but he's been around for years in better books than this one. (Kirkus Reviews)
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A fire ravages a hillside community in Southern California and detective Lew Archer becomes involved in the lives of a group of people entangled in a web of murder and extortion. The author won Crime Writers' Association awards for "The Chill", "The Far Side of the Dollar" and "The Moving Target".
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Lew Archer, PI, almost accidentally becomes involved in the search for a young boy he had befriended earlier. The boy's father is murdered shortly thereafter and Lew is soon investigating much more, including the disappearance of the boy's grandfather many years ago.
This is a good private detective story featuring Lew who appears in a great number of Ross Macdonald books. The novel is quite old so we don't have technology helping to solve the mysteries. We also don't have any profanity, gore or sex. We do, however, have a good whodunit which keeps the reader engaged as Lew goes about his work. There are no silly plot elements holding the story together either. I found some parts slow-going and I did lose track of some of the characters at times though.
These minor quibbles aside, this was a solid and intriguing mystery featuring a likeable PI.
This is a good private detective story featuring Lew who appears in a great number of Ross Macdonald books. The novel is quite old so we don't have technology helping to solve the mysteries. We also don't have any profanity, gore or sex. We do, however, have a good whodunit which keeps the reader engaged as Lew goes about his work. There are no silly plot elements holding the story together either. I found some parts slow-going and I did lose track of some of the characters at times though.
These minor quibbles aside, this was a solid and intriguing mystery featuring a likeable PI.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Underground Man is number one on my list together with White Butterfly (written by Walter Mosley ). And I have read over hundred novels (mostly detective novels ) in english. Ross Macdonald understands life, human beings and family problems. I have read The Underground Man in 1992 and I want read it again. I can also recommend other novel(written by Ross Macdonald ): The Chill is absolutely worth reading.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Madonald's novels are carefully honed and crafted works of literature disguised as detective novels. He is the poet of contemporary disaffection, as is evidenced by this mystery which has one of the best openings of any of Archer's cases, leading on to a family tragedy spanning generations.
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