Sleeping Beauty (novel)
Appearance
![]() First edition | |
Author | Ross Macdonald |
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Language | English |
Series | Lew Archer |
Genre | Detective fiction |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1973 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 271 p. |
ISBN | 0-394-48474-6 |
OCLC | 539704 |
813/.5/2 | |
LC Class | PZ3.M59943 Sl PS3525.I486 |
Preceded by | The Underground Man |
Followed by | The Blue Hammer |
Sleeping Beauty is a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald.
Plot
[edit]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.[1]
Adaptation
[edit]KCRW adapted Sleeping Beauty for a radio play in 1996.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Hunter, Jefferson (22 April 2011). "Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill". Los Angeles Review of Books.
- ^ "Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer".