Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads (USA 2011)

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"Without in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them." Anthony Boucher
"My favorite.... [Macdonald] is first among those novelists who raised the genre from its roots in pulp fiction to serious literature." -- P.D. James, from Talking About Detective Fiction

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 streets of L.A. walked the man -- her lover, her killer -- who had been with her that fatal night. Taylor intended to find him. And when he did, the gun in his pocket would provide the quickest kind of justice. But first Taylor had to find something else: an elusive memory so powerful it drove him down three terrifying roads toward self-destruction -- grief, ecstasty, and death.

"[Macdonald] is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form." -- Los Angeles Times
"[Ross Macdonaldl gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did." -- Chicago Tribune

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, ISBN: 9780307740762 (January, 2011), 256 p., $11.00 (?).

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads (USA 1991)

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THE THREE ROADS
She was a fire-and-ice beauty, making it on her own in Hollywood. He was a man without a memory, a war veteran whose psyche was shot through with death and shock. Years before they had shared a sun-soaked California love affair, but a rocky breakup, a war, and his hasty marriage to a woman he hardly knew had come between them. Now Paula West was trying to nurse Brett Taylor back to health, to restore his memory and rekindle the magic. But somewhere in the past that Taylor could not -- or would not -- remember, there were some little things they both had to face. Things called murder and betrayal...

ROSS MACDONALD
AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED LEW ARCHER SERIES
"[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald." -- New York Times Book Review

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446359009 (February, 1991), 211 p., $4.50.

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads (USA 1983)

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THE THREE ROADS
Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips wetly provocative 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 streets of L.A. walked the man-her lover, her Killer ed to tina him Anth he he fit, tin gui, to his pocket would provide the quickest kind of justice. But first Taylor had to find something else: an elusive memory so powerful it drove him down the terrifying three roads toward self-destruction-grief, ecstasy and death.

ROSS MACDONALD
Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, Ross Macdonald is acknowledged around the world as one of the greatest mystery writers of our time The New York Times has called his books featuring private investigator Lew Archer "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American."

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553226185 (June, 1983), 214 p., $2.75.

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads (USA 1974)

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MAN IN A MAZE
He remembered only their first meeting-the long, continuous kiss in the taxi, the hotel, the panther-blackness of the night: It was the fulfillment of a promise too sweet to be believed. But now she was dead. Murdered. And somewhere in the labyrinth of his tangled memory was the answer to this murder. He had to find the killer-but would he also meet his own destruction?

THE THREE ROADS
by Ross Macdonald
Bestselling author of the
Lew Archer novels

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads. He had one obsession - to trap the brutal killer who had murdered his wife. New York: Bantam, 1974, Bantam Books #Q8420, 214 p., $1.25.

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads (USA 1968)

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TRAPPED IN THE MOCKING CORRIDORS OF HIS MEMORY!
He remembered only their first meeting! - the long, continuous kiss in the taxi, the hotel; the luxury of her body, the panther-blackness of the night. It was the fulfillment of a promise too sweet to be believed. But now she was dead. Murdered. And somewhere in the labyrinth of his tangled memory was the answer to this maze of murder. He had to find the answer -- but would he also find his own annihilation? Suspense drawn as tut and tense as a bowstring!

THE THREE ROADS, ROSS MACDONALD, KENNETH MILLAR. JOHN ROSS MACDONALD - three names for the one man considered to be today's finest writer of hard-boiled mystery novels.

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads. A spasm of passion... a sudden lapse of memory... form the brutal chemistry of murder! New York: Bantam, 1968, Bantam Books #F3665, 214 p., ¢50.

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads (USA 1960)

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?!MEMORY!?
He remembered only their first meeting- the long continuous kiss in the taxi on the way to his hotel, the luxury of her body, the panther-blackness of the night. It was the fulfillment of a promise too sweet to be believed.

But now she was dead.
MURDERED!
And somewhere in the tangled labyrinth of his ocked memory was the answer to the unsolved murder. It was a memory he knew he had to recapture- but he also knew that its recapture might mean his annihilation.

"ABSORBING" -- CHICAGO SUN TIMES
Ross Macdonald, Kenneth Millar, John Ross Macdonald - three names for one man who s been called by reviewers one of the finest writers of the jard-boiled novel of mystery and violence around today.

Ross Macdonald: The Three Roads. One instant passion led to brutal murder. New York: Bantam, 1960, Bantam Books #A2096, 167 p., ¢35.

Kenneth Millar: The Three Roads (USA 1948)

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This is the tale of a man whose sanity and chance for happiness depend on his ability to recapture his unremembered past. "Forget the past," cries Paula, who loves him but doesn't understand. "I've got to remember it first," is Bret's grim answer. Any reader who starts back into the past with Bret will remain trapped at his side, for lying at the core of the darkness of this man's memory is a brutal, unsolved murder.

Kenneth Millar, who has aptly heen likened to James M. Cain and his brethren for the fast-moving, hard-boiled quality of his writing, starts his latest work at a slow, steady pitch that builds up and up till tension and suspense reach an unbearable high, and then -- with all the sudden surefire speed and violence of a roller-coaster descent -- takes his story into action.

KENNETH MILLAR was born at Los Gatos, California, on December 13, 1915, of mixed Scotch-Canadian and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. After growing up in western Canada he attended the University of Western Ontario, from which he was graduated in 1938. The day after his graduation he married a Canadian girl, who has written mystery stories and novels under the name of Margaret Millar. After a period during which he taught in high school and later held a fellowship at the University of Michigan, in 1944 he entered the Navy and became a commissioned officer on an escort carrier. Since his release from the Navy in the spring of 1946 Millar has been living in California with his wife and young daughter. He is the author of three novels, The Dark Tunnel, Trouble Follows Me, and Blue City.

Kenneth Millar: The Three Roads. A Novel of Suspense. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, 223 p., $2.50.