Sleeping Beauty (novel) explained

Sleeping Beauty
Author:Ross Macdonald
Country:United States
Language:English
Series:Lew Archer
Genre:Detective fiction
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date:1973
Media Type:Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages:271 p.
Isbn:0-394-48474-6
Dewey:813/.5/2
Congress:PZ3.M59943 Sl PS3525.I486
Oclc:539704
Preceded By:The Underground Man
Followed By:The Blue Hammer

Sleeping Beauty is a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald.

Plot

Private eye Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands - including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of nembutal, a six figure ransom and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach.[1]

Adaptation

KCRW adapted Sleeping Beauty for a radio play in 1996.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill. Jefferson. Hunter. Los Angeles Review of Books. 22 April 2011 .
  2. Web site: Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer .