Lew Archer world-weary private investigator is hired by Larry & Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick is involved in their own burglary. But when a fellow investigator
- one whos been working with Nick
- turns up dead Archer soon realizes this isnt simply about some stolen loot. To help their son Archer must uncover the truth about a kidnap years ago & discover why the handgun from a decades-old killing apparently turns up at every new & terrible murder. In The Goodbye Look" Ross Macdonald exposes the damage families can cause one another in the name of love lies & greed. Ross Macdonalds " Lew Archer" mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible humane hero & with Macdonalds insight & moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett & Raymond Chandler. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William Goldman Jonathan Kellerman Eudora Welty & Elmore Leonard."