The Underground Man

Ross Macdonald

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Penguin
01 October 2012

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that leads all too quickly to murder. While forest fires rage in the hills around Los Angeles, threatening the homes of some of the city's wealthiest families, Archer unearths a hidden history of failed marriages, runaway children, and a man's life consumed by a search for the father who abandoned him.

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.

By: Ross Macdonald
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 237g
ISBN: 9780141196589
ISBN 10: 0141196580
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 October 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Underground Man

A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were Eudora Welty America's greatest crime writer Elmore Leonard Ross MacDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books. -- James Ellroy