Book description
Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an
investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that his new
bride, Dolly, has gone missing. Snapped by a hotel photographer on the
day of their wedding, the beautiful girl vanished only hours after and
Alex has heard nothing since. But when Archer begins digging, he finds
evidence that links Dolly to brutal murders that span two decades, and
a terrible secret.
In this byzantine and compelling tale, Ross Macdonald explores the
darkest experiences that can bind a family together - and tear it apart.
Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the
detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's
insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the
hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond
Chandler. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers
as William Goldman, Jonathan Kellerman, Eudora Welty and Elmore Leonard.
MacDonald served as president of The Mystery Writers of America in
1965, received the Silver Dagger in 1964 and the Gold Dagger in 1965
from The British Crime Writers Association, and in 1981, received The
Eye, the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Private Eye Writers of
America.
