Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty (USA 2000)

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In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written, Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best.

Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, ISBN: 0375708669 (December, 2000), 271 S., $12.00.

Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty (USA 1991)

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SLEEPING BEAUTY
She walked into the West L.A. night with a bottie of sleeping pills in her hand. The problem for Lew Archer was that she had taken the pills from him and was in the mood to use them. Her family was behind a huge oil spill that lapped like blood against the California coast, while a 30 year-old family secret refused to stay buried beneath all that money and power. Now the girl was missing, two men were dead, and there was oil everywhere. Sometimes, it only takes one spark.

ROSS MACDONALD
"[The) American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald." -- New York Times Book Review

Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty. A Lew Archer Novel. Warner Books ISBN: 0446358991 (July, 1991), 261 S., $4.50.

Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty (USA 1984)

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SLEEPING BEAUTY
The bird struggled in the oil slick, its orange eyes burning with anger. A beautiful woman waded into the ocean to get it, her dark eyes as angry as the bird's. Lew Archer watched from the beach. His instincts told him he was watching the start of a drama in which he played a major part. But he still didn't know his lines, except for the one he'd use to get that dark-eyed lady to come home with him. And he still didn't know about the dead man floating in that same ocean... a lethal dose of Nembutal... or a $100,000 ransom note that would turn big oil profits into murder.

ROSS MACDONALD Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, Ross Macdonald is acknowledged around the world as one of the greatest mystery writers of our time. The New York Times has called his books featuring privater investigator Lew Archer " the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American."

Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty. Avarice, Adulter, Anger - and Lew Archer. The new major novel. Bantam Books ISBN: 0553245937 (December, 1984), 245 S., $2.95.

Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty (USA 1974)

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Ross Macdonald the bestselling author of THE GOODBYE LOOK and THE UNDERGROUND MAN delivers a new, spellbinding novel which moves through the nether world of Southern California where an offshore oil slick, a $100,000 ransom note and a lethal dose of Nembutal plunge Lew Archer into the deadly life-style of a wealthy -- and violent -- family.
SLEEPING BEAUTY

"Ross Macdonald is either part or wholly wizard... Conjuring the magic of real mystery... A real masterpiece." -- Chicago Tribune Book World
"Astonishingly, Ross Macdonald has written... even more skillfully than before." -- Newsweek
"Macdonald puts it all together with breathtaking expertise... It may keep you reading into night." -- New York Sunday News

Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty. Avarice, Adulter, Anger - and Lew Archer. The new major novel. New York: Bantam, 1974, Bantam Books #T8254, 245 S., $1.50.

Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty (USA 1973)

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The New York Times Book Review has called the novels of Ross Macdonald "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American." And Eudora Welty says of his detective hero, Lew Archer: "He is of today, one of ours."

Ross Macdonald's new Lew Archen novel -- his first since his best-selling and brilliantly acclaimed The Undergroand Man and The Goodbye Look - is itself strikingly "of today" of this moment in America. Sleeping Beauty plunges Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the coast of Southem California. It involves him with three generations of the imposing Lennox family whose offshore oil platform has caused the spill; whose young heiress, glimpsed for a haunting moment on the beach -- handsome, angry-eyed, clutching an oil-drenched sea bird in her arms -- has disappeared.

On her trail, Archer finds himself journeying into a horrendous past, into the hidden lives of a family twisted by money, by power, by a ruthless, almost compulsive instinct for infidelity -- infidelity between husbands and wives, parents and children, infidelity to friends, dependents, duty and, in a sense, to the earth itself. As Archer moves among these people, among their lies and contradictions; as episodes distant in time are linked -- a derelict stranger found dead, a ship destroyed by fire in World War II, a secret case of extortion, a child's long-ago glimpse of violence; as the novel moves to its climactic and complex resolution, the reader is once more held fast by the unique art of Ross Macdonald: crackling suspense rooted in strong perception of reality.

ROSS MACDONALD was born near San Francisco in 1915. He was educated in Canadian schools, traveled widely in Europe, and acquired advanced degrees and a Phi Beta Kappa key at the University of Michigan. In 1938 he married a Canadian who is now well known as the novelist Margaret Millar. Mr. Macdonald (Kenneth Millar in private life) taught school and later college, and served as communications officer aboard an escort carrier in the Pacific. For over twenty years he has lived in Santa Barbara and written mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. Among his leading interests are conservation and politics. He is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. In 1964 his novel The Chill was given a Silver Dagger award by the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain. Mr. Macdonald's The Far Side of the Dollar was named the best crime novel of 1965 by the same organization. The Moving Target was made into the highly successful movie Harper (1966). And The Goodbye Look (1969) and The Underground Man (1971) were both national bestsellers.

Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty. The new major novel. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 0394484746 (May, 1973), 271 S., $5.95.