The Far Side of the Dollar
by Ross Macdonald.
First published (1965).
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Paperback.
ISBN-13: 978-0679768654
The Doomsters (1958).
by Ross Macdonald.
ASIN: 0307279049
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 9780307279040
ISBN-13: 978-0307279040
Description:
“Most mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” – The Atlantic Monthly.
“Ross Macdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction. He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” – Los Angeles Times.
Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of Hallman’s parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia. Arriving in the sleepy town of Purissima, Archer discovers that orange groves may be where the Hallmans made their mint, but they’ve has been investing heavily in political intimidation and police brutality to shore up their rancid riches. However, after years of dastardly double-crossing and low down dirty-dealing, the family seem to be on the receiving end of a karmic death-blow. With two dead already and another consigned to the nuthouse, Archer races to crack the secret before another Hallman lands on the slab.
Murder, madness and greed grace The Doomsters, where a tony façade masks the rot and corruption within.
“Ross Macdonald is one of the best writers of the whipcord thriller.” – The Bookman.
Credits:
The Lew
Archer novel series: The Moving Target (aka Harper) (1949); The Drowning Pool
(1950); The Way Some People Die (1951);
The Ivory Grin / Marked for Murder (1952); Find a Victim (1954); The Barbarous
Coast (1956); The Doomsters (1958); The Galton Case (1959); The Wycherly Woman
(1961); The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962); The Chill (1963); The Far Side of the
Dollar (1965); Black Money (1966); The Instant Enemy (1968); The Goodbye Look
(1969); The Underground Man (1971); Sleeping Beauty (1973); The Blue Hammer
(1976); The Name is Archer (1955); Lew Archer, Private Investigator (1977); The
Archer Files (2007). The Chet Gordon novel series: The Dark Tunnel / I Die
Slowly (1944); Trouble Follows Me (1946). Stand-alone novels, short stories and
novellas: Blue City (1947); The Three Roads (1948); Meet Me at the Morgue /
Experience with Evil (1954); The Ferguson Affair (1967); The Guilty Ones
(1952); The Imaginary Blonde (1953); Midnight Blue (2010); Strangers in Town
(2001); Dear Dead Days: 1972 Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1972);
Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels (1986); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye
Stories (1988); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled
Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); Writing
Los Angeles (2002); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); Books to Die For (2012).