The Wycherly Woman: A Lew Archer Novel by Ross Macdonald

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Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly—or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe's mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who keeps too many residences, has too many secrets, and leaves too many corpses in her wake.

Library Journal

Published in 1949, 1961, and 1962, respectively, these three titles find gumshoe Lew Archer up to his neck in murder, kidnapping, and blackmail just another day at the office. This is hard-boiled detective writing at the top of its form.

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Robert B. Parker
It was not just that Ross MacDonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe in some small but mattering way, how to live.
—(Robert B. Parker)

Product Details

• ISBN: 0375701443
  
• ISBN-13: 9780375701443
• Format: Paperback, 288pp
• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Pub. Date: March 1998
• Edition Description: Reprint
• Edition Number: 1
• Sales Rank: 293,238
• Series: Lew Archer Series, #9

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