The Underground Man

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Author: Ross MacdonaldModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 6th June 2024 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the 'Penguin Mo dern Classics – Crime & Espionage' series.Paperback / softback | 288 pages 198mm x 129mm | 500g Private Detective Lew Archer doesn’t believe in coincidences…A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills above southern California. Meanwhile, Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old son. Instead, he discovers the boy’s wealthy father, murdered, and buried in a hole in the ground. The mystery will lead Archer to unearth a tragic, years-old history of abandonment, obsession and illusion, where the past won’t let go of the present – and everything is connected. Show more