description: Ross Macdonald is one of the "Big Three" in American hard-boiled detective fiction, along with Chandler and Hammett. In The Barbarous Coast, tough, thoughtful private eye Lew Archer pursues a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living. Archer's 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.
language: English
title: The Barbarous Coast
titlecomplete: The Barbarous Coast (Lew Archer)
characters: Lew Archer
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Hard Boiled, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1485
series: Lew Archer
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks