The Far Side of the Dollar – Lew Archer Series 8#

Author Ross MacDonald added a psychological dimension to his thrillers that greatly enriched the genre. The Far Side of the Dollar is the 8th in the Lew Archer series.

In The Far Side of the Dollar, private investigator Lew Archer is looking for an unstable rich kid who has run away from an exclusive reform school—and into the arms of kidnappers. Why are his desperate parents so loath to give Archer the information he needs to find him?