Sleeping Beauty (Ross Macdonald novel)

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Sleeping Beauty
Author Ross Macdonald
Country United States
Language English
Series Lew Archer
Genre(s) Detective fiction
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date 1973
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 271 p. (first edition hardcover)
ISBN ISBN 0-394-48474-6 (first edition hardcover)
Preceded by The Underground Man
Followed by The Blue Hammer

Sleeping Beauty is a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald.

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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.