Ross A Macdonald

The Way Some People Die (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead ...

The Instant Enemy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel.At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bu...

The Underground Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

As a mysterious fire rages throughthe hills above a privileged town inSouthern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder—and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. The U...

The Drowning Pool

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred-...

The Chill

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 susp...

Midnight Blue

Lew Archer was out for a little target practice. Just a deserted old estate in the canyon where Archer could get away from the Hollywood rat race and sharpen his shooting skills down in the meadow. But he found two things there he wasn’t expecting. One was a crazy old vagrant that had set up in dila...

The Galton Case (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Ga...

The Moving Target

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping.As Lew Archer follows ...

Sleeping Beauty: Library Edition

Fungi of South-Eastern Australia: A Field Guide

Native Gardens: How to Create an Australian Landscape

The Way Some People Die

The Ivory Grin

The Barbarous Coast

The Doomsters

Wycherly Woman

Walter Adler –

…X von Michael Esser, HR . Die Zeugen von Georges Simenon, Bearbeitung: Adler, SWF/NDR . Schwarzes Blut von Ross Macdonald (2 Teile), Bearbeitung: Adler, SDR/NDR . Zwei Fremde im Zug von Patricia Highsmith (2 Teile), Bearbeitung: Adler, SDR/NDR . Der Verschollene von Sender, Bearbeitung: Adle...