Not since the novels of Nathaniel West has the theme of American innocence grinding to a stop at the polluted waters of the Pacific so consistently reverberated through a body of writing.''-Detroit News

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find ...

When Archer is hired to get the goods on the Frenchman whos run off with his clients girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affectionsuntil he discovers the mysterious foreigner is connected to a seven-year-old suicide a...

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 teenaged daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and...

In the character of Lew Archer, Ross Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin -- and in so doing, gave the American crime novel a psychological ...

Lew Archer knew he shouldn't have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate. Kincaid's loving new bride, Dolly, had just inexplicably walked out on him, leaving Kincaid more than a little fearful for her sanity and her safe...