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 : 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 : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307773493
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Hammer written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a brilliant artist who walked into the desert and simply disappeared. He left behind a bevy of muses, molls, dolls, and dames-each one scrambling for what they thought was rightfully theirs.

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 : Ross Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Instant Enemy written by Ross Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett, a local millionaire industrialist. Now, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? And is the daughter simply his nympho sex-kitten companion in crime or really a fragile kid, trying to block out horrific memories of bad acid and an unspeakable sex crime?

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042025980
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corpus Linguistics written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, linguists and literary scholars have been impelled by curiosity about particular linguistic or literary phenomena to seek to observe them in action in original texts. The fruits of each earlier enquiry in turn nourish the desire to continue to acquire knowledge, through further observation of newer linguistic facts. As time goes by, the corpus linguist operates increasingly in the awareness of what has gone before. Corpus Linguistics, thirty years on, is less an innocent sortie into corpus territory on the basis of a hunch than an informed, critical reassessment of existing analytical orthodoxy, in the light of new data coming on stream. This volume comprises twenty-two articles penned by members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, which together provide a critical and informed reappraisal of the facts, data, methods and tools of Corpus Linguistics which are available today. Authors reconsider the boundaries of the discipline, exploring its areas of commonality with Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Discourse Linguistics, and Lexical Statistics and showing how that commonality is potentially of immense benefit to practitioners in the fields concerned. The volume culminates in the report of a timely and novel expert panel discussion on the role of Corpus Linguistics in the study of English as a global language. This encompasses issues such as English as an international lingua franca, ‘norms’ for global English, and the question of ‘ownership’, or who qualifies as a native speaker.