In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a
wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands-including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. 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 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.
wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands-including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. 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 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.
Used availability for Ross MacDonald's Sleeping Beauty
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Hardback Editions
1980 : Hardback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross Macdonald Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE @ TRADE Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1974 : Hardback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-8161-6125-9 / 978-0-8161-6125-6 (USA edition) Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1973 : Hardback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-00-231775-3 / 978-0-00-231775-7 (UK edition) Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 1973 : Hardback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: 0-89190-096-9 / 978-0-89190-096-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Amereon Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 1973 : Hardback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: 0-394-48474-6 / 978-0-394-48474-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Inc (T) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
December 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-375-70866-9 / 978-0-375-70866-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1995 : Paperback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty (A Lew Archer novel) Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-7490-0162-3 / 978-0-7490-0162-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Allison & Busby Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: 0-446-35899-1 / 978-0-446-35899-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Time Warner Publishing M/M Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
November 1984 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-553-27101-6 / 978-0-553-27101-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1980 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Macdonald Ross ISBN: 0-553-12115-4 / 978-0-553-12115-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Bantam Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
May 1975 : Paperback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross Macdonald ISBN: 0-00-613964-7 / 978-0-00-613964-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Fontana Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1974 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: 0-553-08254-X / 978-0-553-08254-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
1973 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross MacDonald Publisher: Bantam Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1969 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross MacDonald Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon More details... |
Audio Editions
February 2008 : Audio CD
| Title: Sleeping Beauty (Lew Archer Novels) Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: 1-4332-3416-5 / 978-1-4332-3416-3 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 1998 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross MacDonald, Harris Yulin ISBN: 1-57270-049-1 / 9781572700499 (USA edition) Publisher: Audio Partners Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
February 2008 : CD-ROM
| Title: Sleeping Beauty: A Lew Archer Novel (Lew Archer Novels) Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: 1-4332-3417-3 / 978-1-4332-3417-0 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1984 : Unknown
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross MacDonald Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 1984 : Unknown
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross MacDonald Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 1974 : Unknown
| Title: Sleeping Beauty Author(s): Ross MacDonald Publisher: Bantam Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 1974 : Unknown
| Title: Sleeping Beauty ,. Author(s): Ross MacDonald Publisher: Fontana Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 1973 : Unknown
| Title: SLEEPING BEAUTY Author(s): Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon More details... |
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