The Barbarous Coast

✍ Scribed by MacDonald, Ross

• Book ID: 109154192
• Publisher: Vintage
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 132 KB
• Series: Lew Archer 6
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Review

�Ross Macdonald writes like a son-of-a-bitch.� �Anthony Boucher�Not since the novels of Nathanael 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�Macdonald makes a routine story of ocean-side murder among the rich take on a hard-edged, glistening solidity.� �AudioFile

Product Description

The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace. Hired by her hotheaded husband and her rummy �uncle,� Lew Archer sniffs around Malibu and finds the stink of blackmail, blood-money, and murder on every pricey silk shirt. Beset by dirty cops, a bumptious boxer turned silver screen pretty boy and a Hollywood mogul with a dark past, Archer discovers the secret of a grisly murder that just won't stay hidden.Lew Archer navigates through the watery, violent world of wealth and privilege, in this electrifying story of obsession gone mad.