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  • Published: 15 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780307740762
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99

The Three Roads



A classic mystery from one of the genre's most revered masters about a man who comes home from war to find his wife murdered and the grueling journey he takes to seek revenge. Reissue. VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD.

Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him—that’s how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine.  He was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her dead.  Out on the sunlit streets of L.A. walked the man—her lover, her killer—who had been with her that fatal night.  Taylor intended to find him.  And when he did, the gun in his pocket would provide the quickest kind of justice.  But first Taylor had to find something else: an elusive memory so powerful it drove him down three terrifying roads toward self-destruction—grief, ecstasty, and death.

  • Published: 15 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780307740762
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Ross Macdonald

Ross MacDonald served as president of The Mystery Writers of America in 1965, received the Silver Dagger in 1964 and the Gold Dagger in 1965 from The British Crime Writers Association, and in 1981, received The Eye, the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Private Eye Writers of America.

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Praise for The Three Roads

"[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zentih by Macdonald." --The 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