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Lädt ... Midnight Bluevon Ross Macdonald
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Lew Archer was out for a little target practice. Just a deserted old estate in the canyon where Archer could get away from the Hollywood rat race and sharpen his shooting skills down in the meadow. But he found two things there he wasn¿t expecting. One was a crazy old vagrant that had set up in dilapidated gatehouse. And two was a glittering red object on the ground. It was a red enameled fingernail that just happens to still be attached to its owner. A young blonde who was strangled, buried and very much dead. Now Lew Archer¿s chance to get away from it all, just got away. And the wild old vagrant has decided to runaway too! Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Midnight Blue begins quickly, as a short story should, with Archer heading up to Trumbull Canyon for some target practice. A crotchety old man with a gun tries to run him off as soon as he arrives. Once Archer calms the zealot down and gets to the business of setting up for shooting, he sees something red sticking out from some bushes. There is a hand attached, and a pretty young blonde as well. One look at her throat, and Archer knows she’s been murdered.
The crotchety old man takes off, and the police peg him for the killing. But Archer isn’t buying it. His holiday over, he begins questioning those who knew the girl while the cops search for the old man. He soon discovers the young girl was at a wienie roast on the beach the night she went missing. As in any Archer story, there is some family disfunction here, and the high school girl had a reputation for sleeping around. But whom did she go see after she left the beach? Was it the school counsellor, or someone else? Does her best friend know who she was meeting that night?
Even in so brief a story as this, Macdonald’s trademark of emotional damage is on display here, and there is much more going on than meets the eye. All in all, a terrific Lew Archer short story. It’s a morsel which should satisfy anyone who enjoys the genre, and especially fans of Macdonald's Lew Archer.
Midnight Blue is overall a splendid early example of Macdonald’s approach to the detective form. His later novels would take on deeper and subtler shades as he used the form to explore betrayal and damage. Though not as exciting a read as Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald put meat on the bones of the detective novel, and at his best, his later novels approached literature. A terrific — if early — short Lew Archer story, and an entertaining glimpse at a writer coming into his own. ( )