The Archer Files

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932009637
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archer Files written by Ross Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) was the author of eighteen books that a New York Times critic called "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American": the Lew Archer canon, which included such breakthrough best-sellers as The Underground Man, The Goodbye Look, and The Blue Hammer. Macdonald (born Kenneth Millar) also wrote several novelettes and short-stories involving Southern California private-detective Lew Archer.The Archer Files for the first time collects all the brief Archer fiction: the stories from Macdonald's 1955 paperback-original The Name Is Archer, the additional tales included in the Otto Penzler-edited 1977 volume Lew Archer: Private Investigator, and the three then-unknown novellas presented in Crippen & Landru's 2001 book Strangers in Town.Also included in The Archer Files are several lengthy, never-before-published fragments of unfinished Macdonald stories: "case notes," as it were, from the files of Lew Archer.Edited by Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan, The Archer Files is prefaced with Nolan's biographical sketch of Lew Archer himself the character Eudora Welty described as "a champion" and "a distinguished creation ... As a detective and as a man he takes the human situation with full seriousness." Jeff Wong's cover is adapted from the 1955 paperback original, but depicting Ross Macdonald rather than Lew Archer.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 1101910127
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archer Files written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on—a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person—the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Archer dug up secrets and bodies in and around Los Angeles. Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished “case notes” and a fascinating biographical profile of Archer by Edgar Award finalist Tom Nolan. Ross Macdonald’s signature staccato prose is the real star throughout this collection, which is both a perfect introduction for the newcomer and a must-have for the Macdonald aficionado.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 1101910135
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archer Files written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on—a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person—the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Archer dug up secrets and bodies in and around Los Angeles. Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished “case notes” and a fascinating biographical profile of Archer by Edgar Award finalist Tom Nolan. Ross Macdonald’s signature staccato prose is the real star throughout this collection, which is both a perfect introduction for the newcomer and a must-have for the Macdonald aficionado.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593467760
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bearded Lady written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short story from Ross Macdonald’s The Archer Files, detective Lew Archer stops in town to look in on an old army buddy, an artist, only to find that he has mysteriously disappeared. Seemingly the only clue is a disturbing charcoal sketch of a woman with a thick beard sitting in his studio. As Archer finds himself drawn into the investigation, it soon becomes clear that things are not what they seem. And that no one is above suspicion. A Vintage Short.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Find a Victim written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2001-08-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dying hitchhiker leads Lew Archer into the dark side of the small town of Las Cruces, California.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, Private Investigator written by Ross Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : O.Henry
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mammon and the Archer written by O.Henry and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is about a wealthy businessman whose son wants to propose to his sweetheart before she leaves the USA for Europe in a couple of days’ time. Although the son believes that money cannot buy you time – the one thing he dearly needs more of if he is to woo his beloved – the events of the story suggest that money can be used to buy someone extra time. O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.

Author : Phillip D. Jensen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9781921441806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archer and the Arrow written by Phillip D. Jensen and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a sentence 40 years in the making: "My aim is to preach the gospel by prayerfully expounding the Bible to the people God has given me to love" (Phillip Jensen). Join Phillip Jensen and Paul Grimmond as they explore each phrase in this carefully wrought statement, and show not only why faithful, powerful, biblical preaching is so important, but how to go about it. --from publisher website.

Author : Jean C. Archer
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465504575
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Samuel and Selina written by Jean C. Archer and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1902 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paulo Coelho
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593318277
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archer written by Paulo Coelho and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 best-selling author of The Alchemist comes an inspiring story about a young man seeking wisdom from an elder, and the practical lessons imparted along the way. Includes stunning illustrations by Christoph Niemann. “A novelist who writes in a universal language.” —The New York Times In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, and the boy who comes searching for him. The boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life. Paulo Coelho's story suggests that living without a connection between action and soul cannot fulfill, that a life constricted by fear of rejection or failure is not a life worth living. Instead one must take risks, build courage, and embrace the unexpected journey fate has to offer. With the wisdom, generosity, simplicity, and grace that have made him an international best seller, Paulo Coelho provides the framework for a rewarding life: hard work, passion, purpose, thoughtfulness, the willingness to fail, and the urge to make a difference.