Browse by category
7 Ate 9 by Tara Lazar; Ross MacDonald (Illustrator)
Category: Children's
Number-based puns dovetail with pulp/film noir sensibility, with plenty of jokes packed into every line in this numerical whodunit from the author of "The Monstore." Full color.
Bandaging the Blitz by Phyll MacDonald Ross
Category: Biography
In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from her quiet seaside home for the Hackney Hospital in London's bustling East End, where she is to fulfill her dream to train as a nurse. At first, it is a whirlwind of long days, hard work, ne ...Show more
Black Money by Ross Macdonald
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'I can't make your girl come back if she doesn't want to. I told you that on the phone...' When Lew Archer is hired to find out the truth about a suspiciously suave Frenchman who has run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple enough case. But things start to look very different when Ar ...Show more
Boys of SteelThe Creators of Superman by Marc Tyler Nobleman; Ross MacDonald (Illustrator)
Category: Education
JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent--meek, mild, and myopic--than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote stories, and Joe illustrated them. In 193 ...Show more
Chill by Ross MacDonald
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 sinc ...Show more
Drowning Pool by Ross MacDonald
Category: Fiction
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. As he follows the Slocums around, Archer finds that Mrs Slocum might have the least of the family's troubles: her teenage daughter is d ...Show more
Galton Case by MACDONALD ROSS
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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? But what Archer finds - a headless skelet ...Show more
Goodbye Look by Ross MacDonald
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 ...Show more
Naturally : How to Look and Feel Healthy, Energetic and Radiant the Organic Way by Jo Wood with Jane Ross-Macdonald
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Jo Wood is a former model and wife of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood. She is also, in her own words, 'an organic nut' with her own beautiful range of organic beauty products. In her book, Jo writes passionately about what an organic lifestyle has done for her, her family and friends. She explains the huge be ...Show more
Prop Man - From John Wick to Silver Linings Playbook, from Boardwalk Empire to Parks and Recreation by Ross MacDonald; Steven Heller
Category: Cinema & TV
This exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the art and design of graphic props for popular films and TV shows like Parks and Recreation, John Wick, Silver Linings Playbook, The Knick, and Boardwalk Empire is the perfect gift for movie buffs. In Prop Man, discover the secret history of the books, cards, l ...Show more
The Drowning Pool (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Ross Macdonald
Category: Classic Fiction
A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsWhen 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. As he follows the S ...Show more
The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Lew Archer Ser.
Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshiping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain, and the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now, one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As private eye Le ...Show more