Sleeping Beauty (novel)

For other novels, see Sleeping Beauty (disambiguation) § Literature.
Sleeping Beauty
First edition
AuthorRoss Macdonald
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLew Archer
GenreDetective fiction
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1973
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages271 p.
ISBN0-394-48474-6
OCLC539704
813/.5/2
LC ClassPZ3.M59943 Sl PS3525.I486
Preceded byThe Underground Man 
Followed byThe 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]

References

  1. ^ Hunter, Jefferson (22 April 2011). "Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill". Los Angeles Review of Books.
  2. ^ "Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer".


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