Black Money, Ross Macdonald
Black Money, Ross Macdonald
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Black Money
A Lew Archer Novel

Author: Ross Macdonald

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2009

Synopsis

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman whos run off with his clients girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a sevenyearold suicide and a mountain of gambling debts.Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the suntanned skin of Southern Californias high society.

About Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald (1915–1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. He is widely credited with elevating the detective novel to the level of literature with his compactly written tales of murder and despair. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966. In 1982 he was awarded the Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Private Eye Writers of America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on May 16, 2019

A young girl from a good background becomes involved with a mysterious Frenchman at the country club, and her ex-fiancee hires Lew Archer to discover if the Frenchman is an impostor. Soon the Frenchman seems to be connected to an earlier death labeled as a suicide, and then the bodies begin to pile......more

Goodreads review by David on June 01, 2023

'Black Money' precedes 'The Instant Enemy' in the Lew Archer series. They are positioned at #13 & #14 and, so far, are the only Archer series entries I've read.  If I confess to a preference for 'TIE', that has mostly to do with its labyrinthine nature. ... Actually, no; it's not that simple. 'TIE' s......more

Goodreads review by F.R. on March 23, 2016

Apparently this is going to be The Coen Brothers next movie. Personally I think there are more visually arresting MacDonald novels to adapt. ‘Sleeping Beauty’ opens with an oil spill on the Californian coast (and I believe I wrote in my review that it was crying out for someone to step into Paul New......more

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