MacDonald, Ross

New York. 1966. Knopf. Book Club Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket. 238 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Adelson & Eichinger. keywords: Mystery America California. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Ross Macdonald's famous private detective, Lew Archer, is the kind of man you can drop a secret into and never hear it hit bottom. In his thirteenth and strangest case he explores the secret life of a rich California residential community. A beautiful young woman has jilted her fiancE and taken up with a mysterious character who represents himself as a French political refugee. Hired to investigate this man, Archer becomes involved in several murders and a gigantic swindle, Running through the case, as a central theme in this morally disturbing novel, is the corrupting influence of the underworld and its money in our society. BLACK MONEY is the most individual of the brilliant series of novels that have won Ross Macdonald international recognition. 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 girl 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 the past twenty years he has lived in Santa Barbara and has written mystery novels about the explosively changing society of his native state. His main interests, outside of literature, are conservation and politics. He is the current president of Mystery Writers of America. In 1964 his novel THE CHILL was given a Silver Dagger award by the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain, . inventory #5403