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Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award

One of SoundCommentary.com’s The Best of the Best

A Los Angeles Times Pick of Best Mystery Series

A 2010 AudioFile Best Voice Winner

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Lew Archer to find her.

That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly—or for someone to make her disappear. And before he could locate the Wycherly girl, Archer had to reckon with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe’s mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who kept too many residences, had too many secrets, and left too many corpses in her wake.

Editorial Reviews

“Grover Gardner is ideal as the iconic Lew Archer…Gardner keeps it tense, dramatic, and thoroughly entertaining, his performance a perfect match for Macdonald’s pace and style. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile

“[A] fine example of noir hard-boiled mystery at its best. Audie® Award–winning experienced narrator Grover Gardner’s retro pace and spirit capture the bleak early 1960s on the Upper Peninsula of California from San Francisco down to the sleepy towns of Palo Alto and San Jose, pre-Silicon valley…Classic novel, classy reader.” —Soundcommentary.com (starred review)

“A fine yarn…The pace is fast, the plot well-knit with plenty of suspense and surprise as extra dividends.” —Chicago Tribune

“Lew Archer [is] up to his neck in murder, kidnapping, and blackmail—just another day at the office. This is hard-boiled detective writing at the top of its form.” —Library Journal

“Archer solves crimes with the instincts of a psychologist and the conscience of a priest, and the mid-twentieth-century Southern California setting is a wonderful ride in the Wayback Machine.” —Los Angeles Times, praise for the series

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Author Bio: 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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Format:	Retail CD	Format:	MP3 CD
Available Formats :	Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category:	Fiction/Mystery & Detective
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing	Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
CDs:	7	CDs:	1
Runtime:	8.08
ISBN:	9781433278617	ISBN:	9781433278624
Audience:	Adult
Language:	English

The Wycherly Woman

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