Sleeping Beauty, Ross Macdonald
Sleeping Beauty, Ross Macdonald
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Sleeping Beauty
A Lew Archer Novel

Author: Ross Macdonald

Narrator: Tom Parker

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2008

Synopsis

Sleeping Beauty plunges detective Lew Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the Southern California coast. Ross Macdonalds masterful tale leads his investigator into a load of trouble involving ransom, a lethal dose of Nembutal, the death of a stranger found floating off shore, and three generations of the imposing Lennox family, whose offshore oil platform caused the spill. The young Lennox heiressglimpsed for a haunting moment on the beach, clutching an oildrenched sea bird in her armshas disappeared, and while on her trail, Archer finds himself journeying into the hidden lives of a family twisted by money, power, and a compulsive instinct for infidelity.

About Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald (1915–1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. He is widely credited with elevating the detective novel to the level of literature with his compactly written tales of murder and despair. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966. In 1982 he was awarded the Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Private Eye Writers of America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on October 12, 2019

I bury myself the best I can in old books, but somehow my old books keep dragging me back to the latest "breaking news". Take this one, for example, inspired by the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. Ten days after I finished re-reading it, I turned on the TV to discover the Santa Barbara beaches once mo......more

Goodreads review by Olga on June 21, 2024

Family secrets, the secrets of the past tend to come out when the sharp-eyed, big-hearted and lonely Lew Archer gets down to work.......more

Goodreads review by F.R. on March 23, 2016

Those old Archer – I’m sorry, ‘Harper’ – movies are a curious pair. The first is your standard, shiny Sixties thriller with lots of good looking people involved in a vastly complicated plot, whilst the other is very much grungy Seventies and actually quite dull. In both, Paul Newman does little more......more

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