The Goodbye Look (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Kenneth Millar
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Plot: Mystery
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: Southern California
- Principal Characters: Lew Archer, Lawrence (Larry) Chalmers, Irene Chalmers, Nicholas Chalmers, John Truttwell, Betty Truttwell, Jean Trask, Samuel Rawlinson, Mrs. Shepherd, Randy Shepherd, Dr. Ralph Smitheram, Moira Smitheram
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Suicide, Murder or homicide, California, West, U.S., War, Robbery or robbers, Detectives, Greed, Private investigators
- Locales: California
The Novel
The Goodbye Look, like most of the Lew Archer novels, ranges widely in its action, but its principal setting is the fictitious town of Pacific Point, an affluent community which appears in several other Archer novels, most notably The Chill (1964). As the novel begins, private detective Archer has been called to Pacific Point (which lies a few miles south of the Los Angeles county border) by lawyer John Truttwell, who wants him to investigate a burglary at the palatial home of Irene and Larry Chalmers, longtime clients, neighbors, and friends, whose son...
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