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Black Money

Written by: Ross Macdonald
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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When private investigator Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who’s run off with his client’s girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts.

Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the suntanned skin of Southern California’s high society.

©1965 Ross Macdonald; © renewed 1993 by Margaret Millar (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Crime Thrillers Fiction Hard-Boiled Mystery Private Investigators Thriller Thriller & Suspense Detective Crime Suspense

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What the critics say

“A beautiful job…rich in plot and character…The denouement is both surprising and shocking, and the whole is up to Mr. Macdonald’s extraordinarily high standards.”

(New York Times Book Review)

“Grover Gardner’s voice is clear and tough, a natural for the hard-boiled first-person narrative. Macdonald’s story—involving gambling debts, murder, sex, and blackmail—is as satisfyingly gritty as one expects…Gardner’s narration makes it all lively and fresh, rather than a nostalgic relic.”

(AudioFile)

“Master professional narrator Grover Gardner, who becomes each carefully drawn character and captures the exact mood and the many varied accents in the dialog, is outstanding here…A classy narrator in a classic of the genre. Five stars!”

(SoundCommentary.com)

“Lew Archer is as much of an institution as Perry Mason…It’s a thinking man’s murder mystery.”

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His is a tense detective story as I remember them being he story is interesting 🤔 involving several suspects it is involved but a great story with a surprise ending
I quite enjoyed it all the way from state to finish

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