The Barbarous Coast - Ross Macdonald
Category: Mystery
Narrator: Tom Parker (Grover Gardner)
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, Classic, Adults
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Lew Archer Series, Book 6 Release date: June 22, 2005 Duration: 07:01:17, In The Barbarous Coast, tough, thoughtful private eye Lew Archer pursues a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living. Archers investigation leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract, a big-time gambler who died by his own knife, and finally, to an answer he would rather not have known., The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace. Hired by her hotheaded husband and her rummy uncle, Lew Archer sniffs around Malibu and finds the stink of blackmail, blood-money, and murder on every pricey silk shirt. Beset by dirty cops, a bumptious boxer turned silver screen pretty boy and a Hollywood mogul with a dark past, Archer discovers the secret of a grisly murder that just wont stay hidden.Lew Archer navigates through the watery, violent world of wealth and privil
