The Goodbye Look (Lew Archer Series, Book 15) by Ross MacDonald
By Ross MacDonald
In The so long Look, Lew Archer is employed to enquire a housebreaking on the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The leading suspect, their son Nick, has a expertise for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a relations with cash and stories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he discovers a afflicted blonde, a stash of wartime letters, a mysterious hobo. Then a stiff turns up in a vehicle on an empty seashore. And Nick turns up with a Colt .45. In The see you later Look, Ross Macdonald delves into the realm of the wealthy and the afflicted and divulges that the earlier has a perilous approach of catching as much as the present.
If any author should be stated to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it's Ross Macdonald. among the overdue Nineteen Forties and his loss of life in 1983, he gave the yankee crime novel a mental intensity and ethical complexity that his pre-decessors had purely hinted at. And within the personality of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the personal eye as a roving judgment of right and wrong who walks the treacherous frontier among legal guilt and human sin.
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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.