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Classics
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... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever. A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
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... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that leads all too quickly to murder. While forest fires rage in... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him -- that's how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine. He was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her dead. Out on the sunlit... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph Maude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business. A well-dressed... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
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... See More
eBooks in Foreign Languages
John ist aus dem Militärdienst in seine Heimatstadt im mittleren Westen zurückgekehrt. Sein Vater ist inzwischen tot, wie John mitgeteilt wird, ermordet worden. Auf der Suche nach dem Mörder seines Vaters erfährt John... See More
Henry's Hand is a story about the friendship between Henry, a giant, and his right hand. You see, Henry sometimes has trouble keeping track of his body parts -- everything from his ears to one of his legs can fall off. Once... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as 'crazy for men' and without discrimination, she... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
FIFTEEN STORIES ABOUT THE MOST HEINOUS CRIME OF ALL... Of all the crimes humankind can commit, the act of murder -- of cold-bloodedly taking another human life -- is often the most shocking, and can tear couples, families... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'I can't make your girl come back if she doesn't want to. I told you that on the phone' But something changes... 'The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American' William Goldman 'A beautiful job, rich in... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Lew Archer didn't like his client, J. Reginald Harlan, M.A. Of course Archer generally didn't like people whose names started with a single syllable. Harlan hired Lew to find his sister. A respectable school mistress that... See More
Science FictionThe goal of speculative fiction has always been to examine the real world through the lens of the imaginary. By considering what could be, we gain a better understanding of what is. The Colored Lens strives to do exactly... See More