Maude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer\"s business. A well-dressed, wealthy woman has arrived at Archer\"s L.A. office, having intercepted a poison pen letter accusing her of adultery. Reluctantly agreeing to help her find the culprit, he dives into the Slocums\" moneyed, oil-rich California world....

When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer\"s office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her....

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can\"t help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that leads all too quickly to murder....

Книга "The British Martial Register. Comprehending a Complete Chronological History of All the Most Celebrated Land Battles, by Which the English Standard Has Been Distinguished If the Field of Mars, from the Earliest to the Present Time ... Collected and Regula".This is a reproduction of the original artefact....

Rhona grows up with her collected labels of being lazy and immature. She spends her unhappy days, re-doing work, dreading reading sessions, dreaming of escaping it all. She is lost, she does not understand why her efforts results in poor marks, cementing her place in the retard class....

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания, созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг. ...

In this book, organisational relationships are distinguished from the underlying structural (contractual) arrangement, and it is argued that all outcomes from organisational relationships are collaborative, varying in their achievement of tactical through to strategic‘ outcomes....

\\\"...I\"d kill myself if I had my mother\"s courage. As it is, I suppose I\"ll sit around and wait for something to happen to me. Something good or something bad, it doesn\"t really matter.\\\" I didn\"t know what to say. I settled for something meaningless and soothing: \\\"All the bad things have happened, haven\"t they?...

Long considered a literary heir of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald (1915–83) infused new life into the hardboiled detective genre with psychologically complex mysteries involving his intuitive and empathetic private eye Lew......

In 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, two Canadian Inuit fur trappers ordered the largest private sailing ship ever delivered to be used in transporting their annual catch of fur to Herschel Island on the MacKenzie Delta in exchange for the supplies that they needed to survive another winter hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle....

In 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, two Canadian Inuit fur trappers ordered the largest private sailing ship ever delivered to be used in transporting their annual catch of fur to Herschel Island on the MacKenzie Delta in exchange for the supplies that they needed to survive another winter hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle....

Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere, happy and eager not to be discovered?...

British history is irrevocably tied to the sea. The progress and very survival of this island nation has depended in large part upon the development of its naval fleet and on maritime engineering and overseas trade....

Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick is involved in their own burglary. But when a fellow investigator - one who\"s been working with Nick - turns up dead, Archer soon realizes this isn\"t simply about some stolen loot....

Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that his new bride, Dolly, has gone missing. Snapped by a hotel photographer on the day of their wedding, the beautiful girl vanished only hours after and Alex has heard nothing since....