Sleeping Beauty

Resumen del libro

Private detective Lew Archer challenges the power and ruthlessness of a wealthy oil dynasty responsible for a spill on the Southern California coast and linked to a missing girl, a six-figure ransom, and murder.

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.If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

Biografía del autor

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).