<div> <p><em>Sleeping Beauty</em> plunges detective Lew Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the Southern California coast. <P>Ross Macdonald’s masterful tale leads his investigator into a load of trouble involving ransom a lethal dose of Nembutal the death of a stranger found floating off shore and three generations of the imposing Lennox family whose offshore oil platform caused the spill.</p> <p>The young Lennox heiress—glimpsed for a haunting moment on the beach clutching an oil-drenched sea bird in her arms—has disappeared and while on her trail Archer finds himself journeying into the hidden lives of a family twisted by money power and a compulsive instinct for infidelity.</p> <p>If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler it is Ross Macdonald. <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> is crime fiction at its best.</p> </div><P>A Blackstone Audio production.
