Sleeping Beauty (Ross Macdonald novel)
- Sleeping Beauty (Ross Macdonald novel)
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name = Sleeping Beauty
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author = Ross Macdonald
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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. (first edition hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 0-394-48474-6 (first edition hardcover)
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.
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