Recommended reading - The Far Side of the Dollar

The Far Side of the Dollar

by Ross Macdonald.
 
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.
First published (1965).
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0679768653
ISBN-13: 978-0679768654
 
Description:
 
Crime fiction.
 
“Ross Macdonald must be ranked high amongst American thriller-writers.” – Times Literary Supplement (London).
 

In The Far Side of the Dollar, Archer is looking for an unstable rich kid who has run away from an exclusive reform school – and into the arms of kidnappers. Why are his desperate parents so loath to give Archer the information he needs to find him? And why do all trails lead to a derelict Hollywood hotel where starlets and sailors once rubbed elbows with two-bit grifters – and where the present clientele includes a brand-new corpse? The result is Macdonald at his most exciting, delivering 1,000-volt shocks to the nervous system while uncovering the venality and depravity at the heart of the case.

 

“Most mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” – The Atlantic.