by Ross Macdonald · Alianza Emecé · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420640341
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«El enemigo insólito» is the crime novel by Ross Macdonald, published in 1975 by Alianza Emecé in paperback (173 pages, in Spanish).
Starring detective Lew Archer, the novel unfolds in an atmosphere of intrigue and suspense in which family secrets and dark pasts come to light, and its mood evokes the crime and noir genres.
It belongs to the Lew Archer series, of which it is the 14th installment. Original work: «The Instant Enemy» (1968); translation by Mary Williams; collection Selecciones del Séptimo Círculo, no. 34.
For fans of noir and crime fiction, particularly followers of the Lew Archer series.
Kenneth Millar, known mainly by the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works have received attention in academic circles for their psychological depth, sense of place, use of language, sophisticated imagery and integration of philosophy into genre fiction. Brought up in the province of Ontario, Canada, Macdonald eventually settled in the state of California, where he died in 1983.
