Ross MacDonald: The Goodbye Look (UK 2012) From the Publisher: In The Goodbye Look, Ross Macdonald exposes the damage families can cause one another in the name of love, lies and greed. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William Goldman, Jonathan Kellerman, Eudora Welty and Elmore Leonard. Ross MacDonald: The Goodbye Look. Penguin, ISBN: 9780141196602 (July, 2012), 276 p., £8.99, eBook £5.50.
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Ross MacDonald: The Goodbye Look (USA 2000) From the Publisher: If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin. Ross MacDonald: The Goodbye Look. A Lew Archer Novel. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, ISBN: 0375708650 (December, 2000), 243 p., $12.00.
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