The Underground Man - Ross Macdonald

The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald / 277-page paperback published in the Penguin Modern Classics Crime & Espionage Series *** 'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph 'The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American.'--William Goldman Private Detective Lew Archer doesn’t believe in coincidences… A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills above southern California. Meanwhile, Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old son. Instead, he discovers the boy’s wealthy father, murdered, and buried in a hole in the ground. The mystery will lead Archer to unearth a tragic, years-old history of abandonment, obsession and illusion, where the past won’t let go of the present – and everything is connected. 'The American private eye, immortalized Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald...' New York Times Book Review Ross Macdonald's books i