Review of Sleeping Beauty by Ross MacDonald. When Lew Archer takes home a distressed woman and she disappears with a lethal dose of his sleeping pills, he feels obligated to find her. What he finds is a past of family secrets that has lead the family into a downward spiral. Archer will have to untangle the secrets if he hopes to get the lady. · Sleeping Beauty is among the last of the Archer novels, and yet it would serve quite well as starting point for a reader new to Ross MacDonald's private detective. As Lew Archer's flight returns to Los Angeles from Mexico, he looks down upon a large oil spill extending for miles off Pacific Point.5/5(5). 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 s and his death in , he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at/5(66).
Read "Sleeping Beauty by Ross Macdonald Summary Study Guide" by BookRags available from Rakuten Kobo. This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries Analysis, Characters, Objects/Pl. Sleeping Beauty is among the last of the Archer novels, and yet it would serve quite well as starting point for a reader new to Ross MacDonald's private detective. As Lew Archer's flight returns to Los Angeles from Mexico, he looks down upon a large oil spill extending for miles off Pacific Point. Sleeping Beauty Book Summary and Study Guide. Ross MacDonald Booklist Ross MacDonald Message Board. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Sleeping Beauty; Lew Archer is a tough but compassionate private eye in California. On the beach one day he encounters a vast oil spill. A beautiful woman is picking up birds and cleaning the oil from them.
One of Ross Macdonald's best! Tightly wound mystery involving a missing girl with a disturbing family. Macdonald does a wonderful job incorporating the environmentalist movement vs. the oil money making tycoons of California. Sleeping Beauty [Ross Macdonald] on bltadwin.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Sleeping Beauty. Ross MacDonald's next-to-last novel, Sleeping Beauty (), is as engaging a detective novel as you can hope to read. Set in southern California around and mainly in Pacific Point (a neighborhood of San Diego), private detective Lew Archer learns the wealthy Lennox family is responsible for a major oil spill, due in part to taking short cuts in one of the company's offshore drilling platforms.
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