by Ross Macdonald · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474104318
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«La Costa Bàrbara» is the crime novel by Ross Macdonald, published by Edicions De La Magrana in 1989 in paperback.
Private detective Lew Archer investigates the disappearance of a young woman who went from competitive swimming to high society; his inquiries lead him to a former boxer with an inexplicable film contract and to the death of a gambler stabbed with his own knife.
The book is the sixth title in the Lew Archer detective series; the original work is titled The Barbarous Coast (1956).
Aimed at crime fiction readers and fans of the Lew Archer series.
Kenneth Millar, known mainly by the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works have received attention in academic circles for their psychological depth, sense of place, use of language, sophisticated imagery and integration of philosophy into genre fiction. Brought up in the province of Ontario, Canada, Macdonald eventually settled in the state of California, where he died in 1983.
