Instant Enemy by Ross Macdonald - 2007-08-04

Knopf. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Book Club edition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x0. First edition. Jacket price clipped, minimal wear to jacket spine head. 1968 Hard Cover. 227 pp. Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett, a local millionaire industrialist. Now, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree' And is the daughter simply his nympho… Read More

Knopf, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!