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Original Title: The Goodbye Look
ISBN: 0375708650 (ISBN13: 9780375708657)
Edition Language: English
Series: Lew Archer #15
Characters: Lew Archer
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The Goodbye Look (Lew Archer #15) Paperback | Pages: 256 pages
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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.

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Title:The Goodbye Look (Lew Archer #15)
Author:Ross Macdonald
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 256 pages
Published:December 5th 2000 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (first published 1969)
Categories:Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Noir. Detective

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Ratings: 3.96 From 1283 Users | 99 Reviews

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Picture Chandler built with much rougher gin, and not one drop of a vermouth -- not even a vapor.And no ice.Picture a room temperature glass of middling gin when what you're after's a martini, and that's sort of what reading this book was like for me.I don't know, if I could give it an extra half-star I would. MAN, I hate the star system! It just makes me NUTS! To be fair, I'll disclose, I did tear through this book all in a day. I spent an hour with it last night in the heat on my fire escape,

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness. I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.Returning to this book after many years, the reader can clearly see Macdonald has become a novelist simply using the genre as a means to an end. He wrote about broken people in need of mending, and perhaps

An ornate chest burgled along with the wartime letters it contained, an unsolved John Doe found in a hobo jungle fifteen years before and a pair of recent shootings, the young and disturbed scion who wants to confess to all of them, his family of habitual liars, their violently widowed lawyer and his daughter who has the hots for the suspect rich boy, a professionally compromised psychiatrist and his embittered wife, a Gordian knot of false identities, infidelities and covert illegitimately, and

not one of my favorite Macdonald books but still a page turner.

Read before so long ago that I didn't remember a single bit of it. Not surprising, since almost everybody in it is hiding a secret or a different name or both. This kind of hot mess is generally fun with Lew Archer's cool in the middle of it, but in this book there are just too many people and too much mess. Still, MacDonald's not as confused as Raymond Chandler, and Archer's a nice person to hang with.

The classic Ross MacDonald plot: a revolver used in a recent murder is found to be connected to a fifteen-year old homicide, and suspicions swirl around a young person so emotionally scarred by the past that he is convinced he must be guilty of something. (As one of the characters says, "My whole time here, it's been like living in a haunted house." In the Ross McDonald world, she could be speaking about all of us, every single human life.) Once again the sins of the fathers are visited upon the

I didn't love this as much as I love the other Ross Macdonald books I've read, which is utterly and completely. I found this harder to follow, but it could well have been me. The writing was still perfect.