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Sleeping Beauty

Private detective Lew Archer challenges the power and ruthlessness of a wealthy oil dynasty responsible for a spill on the Southern California coast and linked to a missing girl, a six-figure ransom, and murder. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9780891900962 | Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1973, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for 100 years.

9780394484747 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1973, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Private detective Lew Archer challenges the power and ruthlessness of an oil dynasty responsible for a spill on the Southern California coast

9780816161256 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1947), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for 100 years.

Paperback:

9780375708664 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 2000), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Private detective Lew Archer challenges the power and ruthlessness of a wealthy oil dynasty responsible for a spill on the Southern California coast and linked to a missing girl, a six-figure ransom, and murder.

9780446358996 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, July 1, 1991), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for 100 years.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786113200 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 1998), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for 100 years.

9781572700499 | Audio Partners, February 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Hard-boiled detective Lew Archer is moving through the Southern California underbelly in a plot whose twists and turns include an offshore oil slick, a $100,000 ransom note, a lethal dose of Nembutal, and the deadly lifestyle of a wealthy and violent family.

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 wife, who stand to inherit, as well as a questionable chauffeur and a tycoon of a company trying to get the woman's property for the oil under it. Private Investigator Lew Archer takes this case in the Los Angeles suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred--and sufficient motive for a dozen murders.

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9780824023829 | Large print edition (Taylor & Francis, June 1, 1976), cover price $12.00

Paperback:

9780783897837 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his wife, who stand to inherit, as well as a questionable chauffeur and a tycoon of a company trying to get the woman's property for the oil under it.

9780679768067 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Lew Archer, a private detective, is hired by Maude Slocum to investigate a poison pen letter, but when Archer arrives he discovers her mother-in-law drowned in the family pool

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786194759 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his wife, who stand to inherit, as well as a questionable chauffeur and a tycoon of a company trying to get the woman's property for the oil under it.

9780786191680 | Mp3 edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $24.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786122974 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 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.

The Moving Target

Product Description: Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshiping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain, and the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now, one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping...read more

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9780839825388 | Gregg Pr, May 1, 1979, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company, from the sun-worshiping holy man to the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M.

Paperback:

9780375701467 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1998), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Lew Archer confronts the most bizarre and dangerous characters that Los Angeles in the late 1940s has to offer in his hunt for a vanished oil tycoon

9780446358989 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, June 1, 1990), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before.

9780893401719, titled "Moving Target" | Large print edition (L P Books, March 1, 1990), cover price $6.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786196944 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2001), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company.

Archer in Jeopardy

Brings together three of the acclaimed mystery writer's Lew Archer novels--The Zebra-Striped Hearse, and The Instant Enemy--three winners with the incomparable Macdonald touch

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9780394508047 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1979, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Brings together three of the acclaimed mystery writer's Lew Archer novels--The Zebra-Striped Hearse, and The Instant Enemy--three winners with the incomparable Macdonald touch

The Ivory Grin

Hired to follow a runaway, private detective Lew Archer soon finds himself trying to solve a mystery involving a beautiful temptress, a missing maid, some stolen jewelry, a mad Detroit mobster, and a young gentleman. Reprint.

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9780754085195 | Unabridged edition (Black Dagger Crime, July 1, 1998), cover price $19.50 | About this edition: [Read by Grover Gardner]Lew Archer, hired to track down a maid who allegedly stole jewelry from her employer, finds her with her throat slit.

Paperback:

9780307278999 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 10, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Hired to follow a runaway, private detective Lew Archer soon finds himself trying to solve a mystery involving a beautiful temptress, a missing maid, some stolen jewelry, a mad Detroit mobster, and a young gentleman.

9780446358965 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, December 1, 1992), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Private detective Lew Archer is hired by a mysterious woman to locate her former housekeeper and recover pieces of stolen jewelry

9780553273526 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, January 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Private detective Lew Archer is hired by a mysterious woman to locate her former housekeeper and recover pieces of stolen jewelry

9780893403355 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1981), cover price $14.50 | About this edition: [Read by Grover Gardner]Lew Archer, hired to track down a maid who allegedly stole jewelry from her employer, finds her with her throat slit.

Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past

Essays, interviews, and introductions by the popular American mystery writer, who used the pen name Macdonald, provide a brief profile of his life and career

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9780941028257, titled "Self-Portrait, Ceaselessly into the Past" | Borgo Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $29.00

Paperback:

9780941028264, titled "Self-Portrait, Ceaselessly into the Past" | Borgo Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $19.00

9780809580040, titled "Self Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past" | Borgo Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $16.00

9780884961697 | Capra Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Essays, interviews, and introductions by the popular American mystery writer, who used the pen name Macdonald, provide a brief profile of his life and career

The Underground Man

While a mysterious fire ravages an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer searches for a missing child and discovers a secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9780679768081 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: While a mysterious fire ravages an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer searches for a missing child and discovers a secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder

9780553271836 | Bantam Books, February 1, 1984, cover price $3.95 | also contains Feng Shui Professional Practice: Preparation for Extreme Analysis and Design Accuracy | About this edition: As a mysterious fire rages through an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing--and possibly kidnapped--child and uncovers and entire secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder.

Wycherly Woman

Detective Lew Archer turns up more than one suspect in the murder of Phoebe Wycherly, including a blackmailing realtor and Phoebe's own mother, an oddly unmaternal blonde who keeps too many residences and too many secrets. Reprint.

By Ross MacDonald

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9780375701443, titled "The Wycherly Woman" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1998), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Lew Archer is hired to find Phoebe Wycherly, twenty-one-year-old daughter of a rich California oil man, and missing for two months

9780446359030, titled "The Wycherly Woman" | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, September 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her.

9780893407667 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1984), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her.

Way Some People Die

Hired by Mrs. Samuel Lawrence to find her wandering daughter, Galatea, who had been last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, P.I. Lew Archer follows a trail of death and mayhem that takes him from the slum alleys of Southern California to the luxury of Palm Springs. Reprint.

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9780307278982, titled "The Way Some People Die" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 10, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Hired by Mrs.

9780446359023, titled "The Way Some People Die" | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, June 1, 1990), cover price $3.95

9780893402501 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, August 1, 1984), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs.

Los Maleficos/the Doomsters

Detective Lew Archer investigates the mysterious run of bad luck--including bizarre accidents, suspicious deaths, and madness--experienced by the family of the wealthy and powerful Senator Hallman

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9788427010376 | Martinez Roca S A Ediciones, April 1, 1986, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Detective Lew Archer investigates the mysterious run of bad luck--including bizarre accidents, suspicious deaths, and madness--experienced by the family of the wealthy and powerful Senator Hallman

Chill: A Lew Archer Novel

Lew Archer's search for a missing bride turns into a complicated case involving a ten-year-old murder and cover-up, a rich woman with a strong hold on her son, and a dead blonde

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9780786204618, titled "The Chill: A Lew Archer Novel" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Lew Archer's search for a missing bride turns into a complicated case involving a ten-year-old murder and cover-up, a rich woman with a strong hold on her son, and a dead blonde

Paperback:

9780850317138 | Allison & Busby, June 1, 1986, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride.

Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer Private Investigator

Product Description: Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9780892960330 | Mysterious Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters

Lew Archer Private Investigator 1

Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9781555046408 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, September 1, 1988), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters

Lew Archer, Private Investigator

Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9781555046392 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, September 1, 1988), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters

Lew Archer Private Investigator II

Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9781555047276 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, January 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters

Paperback:

9781555047030 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, December 1, 1988), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters

Self Portrait

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9780809540716 | Reprint edition (Borgo Pr, December 1, 1988), cover price $25.00

The Galton Case

When an aging and filthy rich woman hires him to investigate her son's disappearance twenty years ago, Lew Archer uncovers a headless skeleton, a suspicious heir, and a con game whose stakes are high enough to kill for. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9780679768647 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When an aging and filthy rich woman hires him to investigate her son's disappearance twenty years ago, Lew Archer uncovers a headless skeleton, a suspicious heir, and a con game whose stakes are high enough to kill for

9780446358934 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, June 1, 1990), cover price $3.95

The Far Side of the Dollar

Product Description: Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with tycoons and hustlers? The once-popular palace is now boarded up, but for Archer, it may hold the key to a missing teenager and a hot murder...read more

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9780679768654 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: All clues in the disappearance of a youngster at an exclusive reform school lead detective Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors rub shoulders with grifters and the occasional dead body.

9780446358903 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, June 1, 1990), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped?

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786109906 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped?

The Chill

Lew Archer's search for a missing bride turns into a complicated case involving a ten-year-old murder and cover-up, a rich woman with a strong hold on her son, and a dead blonde

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9780679768074 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Lew Archer's search for a missing bride turns into a complicated case involving a ten-year-old murder and cover-up, a rich woman with a strong hold on her son, and a dead blonde

9780446358873 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, June 1, 1990), cover price $4.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786198023 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $64.00

9780786194087 | Mp3 edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $24.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786110667 | Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1996, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride.

The Barbarous Coast

Detective Lew Archer journeys inside the dark underbelly of glittering Malibu society when he is hired by a hotheaded husband to find his gorgeous wife, an aspiring Hollywood actress, taking on corrupt cops, a bisexual boxer turned filmdom star, and a Hollywood mogul with a dark past as he stumbles upon the secrets of a grisly murder. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9780307279033 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 4, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Detective Lew Archer journeys inside the dark underbelly of glittering Malibu society when he is hired by a hotheaded husband to find his gorgeous wife, an aspiring Hollywood actress, taking on corrupt cops, a bisexual boxer turned filmdom star, and a Hollywood mogul with a dark past as he stumbles upon the secrets of a grisly murder.

9780446358828 | Reissue edition (Grand Central Pub, August 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786199167 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2000), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Ross Macdonald is one of the "Big Three" in American hard-boiled detective fiction, along with Chandler and Hammett.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786110476 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $39.95

The Doomsters

Hired by a strung-out addict who claims that his father has been murdered, detective Lew Archer investigates the mysterious run of bad luck--including bizarre accidents, suspicious deaths, and madness--experienced by the family of the wealthy and powerful Senator Hallman. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9780307279040 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 4, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Hired by a strung-out addict who claims that his father has been murdered, detective Lew Archer investigates the mysterious run of bad luck--including bizarre accidents, suspicious deaths, and madness--experienced by the family of the wealthy and powerful Senator Hallman.

9780446358880 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, November 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia.

Find a Victim

Held for a murder investigation in Las Cruces, New Mexico after picking up a bloody hitchhiker, Lew Archer finds himself embroiled in case involving drugs, alcohol, bank robbery, corruption, and dysfunctional families. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9780375708671 | Vintage Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Lew Archer becomes involved with a beautiful blonde and a case of murder after he discovers a man dying of a bullet wound along a southern California highway.

9780446358927 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, September 1, 1991), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Lew Archer becomes involved with a beautiful blonde and a case of murder after he discovers a man dying of a bullet wound along a southern California highway

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786119202 | Abridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.

9780786114931 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 1999), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.

The Name Is Archer

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By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9780446361569 | Reissue edition (Grand Central Pub, October 1, 1991), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Item qualifies for FREE shipping and Prime!

The Goodbye Look

In searching for a gun used to commit two murders fifteen years apart, Lew Archer is introduced to California hobos and the nouveau riche in his attempt to solve the murder of another private eye. Reprint. NYT.

By Ross MacDonald

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Hardcover:

9780754048572 | Large print edition (Chivers, September 1, 2003), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: In searching for a gun used to commit two murders fifteen years apart, Lew Archer is introduced to California hobos and the nouveau riche in his attempt to solve the murder of another private eye.

Paperback:

9780754048589 | Large print edition (Chivers, September 1, 2003), cover price $22.01

9780783897844 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, February 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In searching for a gun used to commit two murders fifteen years apart, Lew Archer is introduced to California hobos and the nouveau riche in his attempt to solve the murder of another private eye.

9780375708657 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 2000), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In searching for a gun used to commit two murders fifteen years apart, Lew Archer is introduced to California hobos and the nouveau riche in his attempt to solve the murder of another private eye.

9780446358941 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, February 1, 1992), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: While searching for a gun used to commit two murders fifteen years apart, Lew Archer is introduced to California hobos and the nouveau riche in his attempt to solve the murder of another private eye

The Underground Man: A Lew Archer Novel

Fifteen years after an adulterous couple had run away from Santa Teresa, all that they left behind is suddenly and mysteriously destroyed in a fire, and detective Lew Archer sets out to find out why. Reprint. NYT.

By Ross MacDonald

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Paperback:

9780446359016 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, July 1, 1992), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Fifteen years after an adulterous couple had run away from Santa Teresa, all that they left behind is suddenly and mysteriously destroyed in a fire, and detective Lew Archer sets out to discover why

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