Meet Me at the Morgue
by Ross Macdonald.
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
First published 1953.
ISBN-10: 0307740773
ISBN-13: 9780307740779
Description:
“My favorite . . . [Macdonald] is first among
those novelists who raised the genre from its roots in pulp fiction to serious
literature.” – P.D. James, from Talking About Detective Fiction.
“[The] American private eye, immortalized by
Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.” – New
York Times Book Review.
“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.
“Most mystery writers merely write about
crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” – The Atlantic.
“Without in the least abating my admiration
for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the
heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of
them.” – Anthony Boucher.
“[Macdonald] carried form and style about as
far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private
detective mysteries.”
– The Guardian (London).
“[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story
that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago
Tribune.
Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a
kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is
innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a
wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has
lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder,
and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of
violence and evil. Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come
down on the wrong man. Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a
bloody puzzle – a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that
might be better left unsolved.
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