Ross MacDonald

When Lew Archer stops for a hitchhiker and finds a young man dying of a gunshot wound, he knows he has stumbled into a mess....

The young Lennox heiress - glimpsed for a haunting moment on the beach, clutching an oil-drenched sea bird in her arms - has disappeared....

Meet Me at the Morgue is the story of a kidnapping that led to four murders....

Archer knows that 20 years ago a handful of dreamers and losers came together in the Barcelona....

The era is the 1970s; the setting is Southern California. Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of the celebrated Richard Chantry....

Lew Archer knew he shouldn't have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate....

Doctor Robert Branch was a university professor, not a secret agent. But his best friend was dead and Branch knew that it couldn't have been suicide....

In The Barbarous Coast, Lew Archer's pursuit of a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract....

Manchmal scheint Privatdetektiv Lew Archer das Unheil geradezu anzuziehen: Im Zug nach Los Angeles lernt er ein junges, hübsches Mädchen kennen...