Showing posts with label The Far Side of the Dollar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Far Side of the Dollar. Show all posts

Monday, September 23, 2024

Recommended reading - The Far Side of the Dollar

 

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.