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Lew Archer is hired by Alex Kincaid, a young man whose bride, Dolly, walked out the day after their wedding, and finds that Dolly was a witness in a murder case years before.
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The Galton Case
Lew Archer is hired by the lawyer of Maria Galton, a rich and dying old woman, to find her son Anthony, who ran off with a girl more than twenty years ago and was never heard from again.
The Long Goodbye
Philip Marlowe befriends Terry Lennox, a scarred, polite drunk married to a millionaire's daughter, and when Terry asks for a ride to Tijuana, Marlowe is drawn into a case that reaches deep into Los Angeles money and power.
March Violets
In Berlin in 1936, with the Olympics about to open, Bernie Gunther, a police detective turned private investigator, is hired by a steel magnate to recover a diamond necklace stolen from the safe of his daughter and son-in-law, who died in a fire.
A Is for Alibi
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone of Santa Teresa, California, is hired by Nikki Fife, just out of prison after eight years for poisoning her philandering husband, to find out who really killed him.
Indemnity Only
V. I. Warshawski, a private investigator in Chicago, is hired by a man calling himself John Thayer to find his son's missing girlfriend, and finds the son shot dead in his apartment instead.
Black Cherry Blues
Dave Robicheaux, a former New Orleans cop grieving his murdered wife, runs a bait shop in New Iberia with his adopted daughter, until an old friend draws him into trouble with oil men and the mob.
Silent Joe
Joe Trona, scarred as a baby when his father threw acid in his face, works as a deputy in Orange County and as bodyguard to the county supervisor who adopted him, until the man is shot dead in front of him.
Devil in a Blue Dress
In Los Angeles in 1948, Easy Rawlins, a Black war veteran just fired from his job at an aircraft plant, is hired to find a white woman named Daphne Monet.
The Maltese Falcon
In 1920s San Francisco, private detective Sam Spade is hired by a beautiful woman whose story is a lie, and after his partner is shot, he is drawn into a hunt for a jewelled falcon statue.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
In an alternate history where Jewish refugees settled Alaska, a hard-drinking detective investigates a murder in the Yiddish-speaking metropolis of Sitka.
Red Harvest
A detective arrives in a mining town controlled by warring gangs and plays them against each other, leaving a trail of bodies that adds up to something like justice.
The Black Echo
LAPD detective Harry Bosch recognises the body found in a drainage pipe near the Mulholland Dam as Billy Meadows, who fought beside him as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, and the case leads to a bank vault robbed from below the city and an uneasy partnership with FBI agent Eleanor Wish.