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Title details for The Barbarous Coast by Ross Macdonald - Available

The Barbarous Coast

#6 in series

by Ross Macdonald
Grover Gardner
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Ross Macdonald is one of the "Big Three" in American hard-boiled detective fiction, along with Chandler and Hammett. In The Barbarous Coast, tough, thoughtful private eye Lew Archer pursues a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living. Archer's investigation leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract, a big-time gambler who died by his own knife, and finally, to an answer he would rather not have known.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Lew Archer

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    June 22, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481558402
      • File size: 202224 KB
      • Duration: 07:01:17

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      One of the "Big Three" in American hard-boiled detective fiction (with Chandler and Hammett), Macdonald makes a routine story of oceanside murder among the rich take on a hard-edged, glistening solidity. The listener knows the characters. Tom Parker reads with great skill, shading primarily by accent rather than by tone or volume. A prissy character sounds prissy, a Mexican-American has the faintest of Spanish accents, and the first-person protagonist sounds a little weary, a little cynical, a little lonely. This is an excellent presentation of an excellent crime novel. D.W. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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