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Black Money (Crime Masterworks) (Paperback)

by Ross MacDonald (Author) "I'd been hearing about the Tennis Club for years, but I'd never been inside of it ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; New Ed edition (17 Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752851780
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752851785
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 170,320 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When Lew Archer is hired to find out the truth about a suspiciously suave Frenchman who has run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple enough case. But things start to look very different when Archer connects the elusive foreigner to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. This is Ross Macdonald at his finest, revealing the skull beneath the sun-kissed skin of Southern California.


About the Author

Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) was the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar who was born in California and educated in Canada and at the University of Michigan, where he also taught. In 1938 he married the writer Margaret Millar. He served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946. He published his first novel, The Dark Tunnel, in 1944 and his first Lew Archer story, The Moving Target, in 1949. He became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America in 1973.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Complex, compassionate and thrilling., 29 Dec 2002
By J. Anderson (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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"Black Money" is the first novel I've read by Ross Macdonald and it most certainly will not be the last.

The book features Private Investigator Lew Archer, who is hired to look into the background of a Frenchman who has stolen Archer's client's girlfriend. Things are not quite as simple as they appear on the surface and in the course of his investigation Archer meets a large number of interesting characters, some with a hidden secret or two. The Detective begins to wonder if current events somehow tie into an apparent suicide seven years earlier.

What I liked about Lew Archer was his humanity: he was genuinely concerned about, and sympathetic to, unfortunate people who crossed his path, rather than ridiculing them for their obvious deficiencies. There was none of the macho nonsense that is sometimes prevalent when reading P.I. novels. Archer came across as an all round compassionate guy, reminding me in some ways of the James Lee Burke character - Dave Robicheaux.

I'm glad I stumbled across Ross Macdonald and hopefully it'll be possible to track down some of the other books in the Archer series.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Complex, compassionate and thrilling., 5 Jan 2003
By J. Anderson (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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"Black Money" is the first novel I've read by Ross Macdonald and it most certainly will not be the last.

The book features Private Investigator Lew Archer, who is hired to look into the background of a Frenchman who has stolen Archer's client's girlfriend. Things are not quite as simple as they appear on the surface and in the course of his investigation Archer meets a large number of interesting characters, some with a hidden secret or two. The Detective begins to wonder if current events somehow tie into an apparent suicide seven years earlier.

What I liked about Lew Archer was his humanity: he was genuinely concerned about, and sympathetic to, unfortunate people who crossed his path, rather than ridiculing them for their obvious deficiencies. There was none of the macho nonsense that is sometimes prevalent when reading P.I. novels. Archer came across as an all round compassionate guy, reminding me in some ways of the James Lee Burke character - Dave Robicheaux.

I'm glad I stumbled across Ross Macdonald and hopefully it'll be possible to track down some of the other books in the Archer series.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Macdonald does Gatsby, 29 Nov 2008
By Mr. A. V. Ward "Joburg Joller" (Weybridge, Surrey) - See all my reviews
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Like all Macdonald's complex plots, this tale is logically and plausibly resolved by the end of one of his most compelling page turners. Macdonald is unequalled in the brevity of his luminous evocation of place and character, while exploring the fatal traps spoiling and foiling the fulfillment of unrequited desire of people who, on the surface, seem to have everything.
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Ross MacDonald is a Master among crime novelists. Read the lot and get a taste of California from the 1940's to the '70's.

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