Editorial Vintage USA
Fecha de edición enero 2011
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780307740731
Libro
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He was a son who hadn't known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murder his father's murder. Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father's seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors. The doors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely. Now Johnny Weatherly was going to solve this murder by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown.
Ross Macdonald (Los Gatos, 1915 -Santa Bárbara, 1983) es el pseudónimo del novelista Kenneth Millar. Fuertemente influenciado por autores como Dashiell Hammett y Raymond Chandler, ha sido considerado uno de los más brillantes herederos de la época dorada de la literatura negra estadounidense. Algunas de sus novelas más conocidas, todas ellas protagonizadas por el detective Lew Archer, han sido publicadas por RBA: El blanco móvil (SN, 47), La piscina de los ahogados (SN, 121), La forma en que algunos mueren (SN, 157), La sonrisa de marfil (SN, 175), La mirada del adiós (SN, 23) y El martillo azul (SN, 3) ) y La piscina de los ahogados (SN, 121).
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