Sleeping Beauty (novel)

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Sleeping Beauty
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First edition
Author Ross Macdonald
LanguageEnglish
Series Lew Archer
Genre Detective fiction
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1973
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages271 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

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]

Contents

Adaptation

KCRW adapted Sleeping Beauty for a radio play in 1996. [2]

References

  1. Hunter, Jefferson (April 22, 2011). "Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill". Los Angeles Review of Books.
  2. "Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer".