Росс Макдоналд

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 …

The Dark Tunnel is a 1944 spy thriller novel written by Kenneth Millar. For this novel, his debut, Millar used his real name -- he is generally better known as Ross Macdonald. University professor Robert Branch makes light of his best friend's suspicions that there is a Nazi spy in their sleepy, midwestern university …