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Celebrated private eye Lew Archer is hired by a father intent on preventing the marriage of his daughter to a penniless and possibly murderous artist. The chase takes Archer from Mexico to Lake Tahoe and from the San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles as more than one murder crowds the investigation.
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“This production features musical accompaniment, cinematic sound, and a cast of forty—including Ed Asner, Tyne Daly, Shirley Knight, Jennifer Tilly, among other notables…[A] memorable reading.”
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“This is hard-boiled detective writing at the top of its form.”
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A 1963 Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee for Best Novel
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About Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald (1915–1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. He is widely credited with elevating the detective novel to the level of literature with his compactly written tales of murder and despair. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966. In 1982 he was awarded the Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Private Eye Writers of America.
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Bleak December Inc. is a multimedia company founded by Canadian actor and filmmaker Anthony D.P. Mann.