The Underground Man
  • Published: 10 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241684795
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99

The Underground Man

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10 Sep 2024
EBook
26 Sep 2012
Paperback
19 Sep 2012
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A hardboiled story of abduction and murder in the Los Angeles hills

Private Detective Lew Archer doesn’t believe in coincidences…

A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills above southern California. Meanwhile, Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old son. Instead, he discovers the boy’s wealthy father, murdered, and buried in a hole in the ground. The mystery will lead Archer to unearth a tragic, years-old history of abandonment, obsession and illusion, where the past won’t let go of the present – and everything is connected.
  • Published: 10 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241684795
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99
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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.

Also by Ross Macdonald

The Ross Macdonald Collection: 11 Classic Lew Archer Novels
Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels (LOA #295)
Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s (LOA #279)
The Goodbye Look
The Chill
The Drowning Pool
The Galton Case
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Praise for The Underground Man

I love the Lew Archer books.

James Ellroy

The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American.

William Goldman