Sleeping Beauty (Ross Macdonald novel)
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Sleeping Beauty | |
Author | Ross Macdonald |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Lew Archer |
Genre(s) | Detective fiction |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1973 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 271 p. (first edition hardcover) |
ISBN | ISBN 0-394-48474-6 (first edition hardcover) |
Preceded by | The Underground Man |
Followed by | The Blue Hammer |
Sleeping Beauty is a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald.
[edit] Plot
Private eye 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.