The Goodbye Look

Resumen del libro

In The Goodbye Look, Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a family with money and memories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he discovers a troubled blonde, a stash of wartime letters, a mysterious hobo. Then a stiff turns up in a car on an empty beach. And Nick turns up with a Colt .45. In The Goodbye Look, Ross Macdonald delves into the world of the rich and the troubled and reveals that the past has a deadly way of catching up to the present.

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).