The Chill

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 3, 1996 - Fiction - 288 pages
In The Chill a distraught young man hires private investigator Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer.
 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
17
Section 3
41
Section 4
55
Section 5
64
Section 6
79
Section 7
112
Section 8
132
Section 11
171
Section 12
177
Section 13
183
Section 14
190
Section 15
237
Section 16
248
Section 17
259
Section 18
265

Section 9
140
Section 10
152
Section 19
276
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About the author (1996)

Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Canada, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983.

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