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The Goodbye Look, by MacDonald, Ross is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Goodbye Look, about?

In The Goodbye Look , Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a family with money and memories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he discovers a troubled blonde, a stash of wartime letters, a mysterious hobo. Then a stiff turns up in a car on an empty beach. And Nick turns up with a Colt .45. In The Goodbye Look , Ross Macdonald delves into the world of the rich and the troubled and reveals that the past has a deadly way of catching up to the present. 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. ISBN : 9780553271027 Formats : EPUB, MOBI

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
MacDonald, Ross
Publisher
Bantam
Published
1969
Language
EN
ISBN
9780553271027
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Mystery, Fiction
Rating
3.95 / 5 (902 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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