#14 Lew Archer

The Instant Enemy

Ross Macdonald
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Lew Archer is back, careening down the bloody trail of women who were beaten to death, a murdered cop, and a dead hobo who is the key to a 15-year-old family secret that won't die. "(The) American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald".--New York Times Book Review. Out of print since 1986.
Genres: MysteryCrimeFictionNoirDetectiveMystery ThrillerThrillerHard Boiled20th CenturyLiterary Fiction
240 Pages

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