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Title: The Goodbye Look (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross MacDonald ISBN: 0-375-70865-0 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 05 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Chandleresque
Comment: I picked this one up because of the numerous good reviews that Macdonald has received over the years, and his obvious prolificity. The Goodbye Look is supposed to be his best, and while it is very good, it is a style of mystery that isn't quite to my taste. Macdonald is very much like Raymond Chandler. His hero is a rough, ready, and usually untalkative type who goes through a mystery case as gently as he downs a fifth of scotch. The mystery is also very Chandleresque--several dysfunctional families, incestuously lying and cheating their way to unhappiness. If you like Chandler, you'll like Ross Macdonald. However, based on my impression of this book, if you want more characterization, try John D. McDonald.
Rating: 3
Summary: Macdonald offers solid fare in this Archer mystery.
Comment: Lew Archer works for the sleaziest rich people in California on a consistent basis. Their concealed pasts go back 20 years, sometimes longer, and in the process of the plot's unravelling several dead bodies usually turn up (including fresh ones). In this novel, his first national bestseller in 1969, two broken families have intertwined tragic pasts that Archer ends up disclosing. By the end they're not happier, but have faced the ugly truth about themselves. This book is compact, unified in time and setting, and has nice plot twists. Macdonald has been criticized for rewriting the same book, and there is a consistency of character and milieu in his work. But hey, if it's not broke... The end is a lift from Macdonald's The Galton Case, widely regarded as his best book. When you've read that one--and if there's a better PI novel written since WWII I don't know of it--try this one. It's a good read by a good writer.
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Title: The Wycherly Woman (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0375701443 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Moving Target (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross MacDonald ISBN: 037570146X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Sleeping Beauty (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross MacDonald ISBN: 0375708669 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 05 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Find a Victim (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross MacDonald ISBN: 0375708677 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 14 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Zebra-Striped Hearse (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0375701451 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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