Sleeping Beauty (Ross Macdonald novel)

Sleeping Beauty  
Author(s) 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)
OCLC Number 539704
Dewey Decimal 813/.5/2
LC Classification PZ3.M59943 Sl PS3525.I486
Preceded by The Underground Man
Followed by The Blue Hammer

Sleeping Beauty is a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald.

Plot

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.

The works of Ross Macdonald
Lew Archer works
Novels
The Moving Target  • The Drowning Pool  • The Way Some People Die  • The Ivory Grin  • Find a Victim  • The Barbarous Coast  • The Doomsters  • The Galton Case  • The Wycherly Woman  • The Zebra-Striped Hearse  • The Chill  • The Far Side of the Dollar  • Black Money  • The Instant Enemy  • The Goodbye Look  • The Underground Man  • Sleeping Beauty  • The Blue Hammer
Short stories
The Name is Archer  • Lew Archer: Private Investigator  • Strangers in Town
Omnibuses
Archer in Hollywood  • Archer at Large  • Archer in Jeopardy
Writing as John Macdonald
Other novels
Meet Me at the Morgue  • The Ferguson Affair