The Goodbye Look

Resumen del libro

Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick is involved in their own burglary. But when a fellow investigator - one who's been working with Nick - turns up dead, Archer soon realizes this isn't simply about some stolen loot. To help their son, Archer must uncover the truth about a kidnap years ago, and discover why the handgun from a decades-old killing apparently turns up at every new and terrible murder. In The Goodbye Look , Ross Macdonald exposes the damage families can cause one another in the name of love, lies and greed. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.

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).