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.
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.
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Hardback Editions
June 2002 : Hardback
| Title: The Goodbye Look Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-7540-4857-8 / 978-0-7540-4857-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1974 : Hardback
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June 1969 : Hardback
| Title: Goodbye Look Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: 9997402537 / 9789997402530 Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1969 : Hardback
| Title: The Goodbye Look Author(s): ross macdonald ISBN: 0-00-231252-2 / 978-0-00-231252-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
January 2003 : Paperback
| Title: The Goodbye Look Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: 0-7540-4858-6 / 978-0-7540-4858-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 2002 : Paperback
| Title: The Goodbye Look (Thorndike Paperback) Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: 0-7838-9784-7 / 978-0-7838-9784-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
December 2000 : Paperback
| Title: The Goodbye Look Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-375-70865-0 / 978-0-375-70865-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1999 : Paperback
| Title: The Goodbye Look [Paperback] Author(s): Ross MacDonald Publisher: Pan Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1992 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1992 : Paperback
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January 1990 : Paperback
| Title: The Goodbye Look Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-85031-715-0 / 978-0-85031-715-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Allison & Busby Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 1988 : Paperback
| Title: The Goodbye Look (Allison & Busby American crime series) Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-85031-753-3 / 978-0-85031-753-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Allison & Busby Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1987 : Paperback
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January 1986 : Paperback
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June 1984 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: GOODBYE LOOK Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-553-27102-4 / 978-0-553-27102-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1984 : Paperback
| Title: The Goodbye Look Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-553-24192-3 / 978-0-553-24192-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Bantam Books, Availability: Amazon More details... |
1979 : Mass Market Paperback
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1978 : Paperback
| Title: The goodbye look Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-00-615391-7 / 978-0-00-615391-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Fontana Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1977 : Mass Market Paperback
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1977 : Paperback
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1977 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1974 : Mass Market Paperback
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1974 : Paperback
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January 1971 : Mass Market Paperback
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September 1970 : Paperback
| Title: The Goodbye Look (Fontana Books) Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-00-612404-6 / 978-0-00-612404-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Fontana Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1970 : Paperback
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January 1970 : Paperback
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January 1970 : Paperback
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January 1969 : Paperback
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Other Editions
December 2000 : Unknown
| Title: The Goodbye Look Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: 1-4177-0928-6 / 978-1-4177-0928-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Topeka Bindery Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1974 : Unknown
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1972 : Unknown
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1972 : Unknown
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January 1971 : Unknown
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January 1970 : Unknown
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