Find a Victim (Lew Archer Series, Book 5) by Ross MacDonald
By Ross MacDonald
Las Cruces wasn't a spot such a lot tourists could imagine to prevent. yet after Lew Archer performs the great samaritan and choices up a bloodied hitchhiker, he unearths himself on the town for a couple of days watching for a homicide inquest. A hijacked truck choked with liquor and an explanation field filled with marijuana, $20,000 from a major time financial institution heist by means of a small time criminal, corruption, adultery, incest, prodigal daughters and abused other halves all make the little city look much more attention-grabbing than any consultant e-book ever may possibly. and because the homicide expense rises, Archer reveals himself stuck up in secret the place everyone seems to be a suspect and everyone's a sufferer.
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I stopped and stared but he walked on without me. I hurried to catch up. “Back when Byrdie and her mama first came to Piney Grove to worship, there was an old busybody in the congregation by the name of Ethel Cox. She had something ill to say about everybody. My mama was in charge of organizing the bake sale that year and she held a meeting at our house. Well, there wasn’t much talk about a bake sale that night. It was stuffy so Mama had opened the windows. I stood outside smoking and heard the whole thing.
He’ll never leave Bloodroot Mountain because the Cotters have lived here for generations, but I wonder if he ever wants to dust his hands of this place and move on. Millertown was the big city to me back then, before I went to Knoxville with Daddy once to buy a washing machine. Now I see it for what it really is, a country town with old houses and glass-sprinkled lots and the smokestacks of dirty-looking factories looming over everything. The buildings on Main Street are falling into disrepair but they still have character, with tall windows and painted brick and arched doorways.
One time I caught him off by hisself hid in the corn patch, reading a book of poems. His face got red as a beet and he flew so mad I thought he was going to fight me, just because I knowed he liked to read poems. ” Mr. Barnett talked about Myra’s granny, too. He said he could see why Macon was drawn to Byrdie, even though she wasn’t much to look at. She was brash and sassy and tough. “I seen her bury every one of her children and take to her bed for months at a time,” Mr. Barnett said. “But someway she always got back on her feet.