![]() ![]() Since the three were photoed together, Gabrielle had been found shot dead on the beach, Hester had run away from Malibu and married Wall in Toronto, while Lance had started working for the gangster Carl Stern. ![]() In his office is an old photograph of three divers in action who are identified as Hester Campbell, as she was then known, Gabrielle Torres (Tony's daughter) and her cousin Manuel (who now calls himself Lance). His wife Hester had once been an exhibition diver at the club and the middle-aged Bassett has taken a fatherly interest in her welfare. Once inside, Archer discovers from Clarence Bassett, the club manager, that the job being offered is to protect him from Wall's threats. Just then a hot-headed Canadian named George Wall tries to barge into the private grounds with the plea that he is looking for his wife, but is turned away. Lew Archer is summoned to the Channel Club on Malibu Beach and stops to talk to the gateman, Tony Torres. The novel takes an acid view of Southern California society that foreshadows Macdonald's later treatment of cross-generational deterministic themes. The plot follows Archer's attempt to locate a missing young woman who is associated with an upscale country club. ![]() Knopf in hardcover, and by Bantam Books as a paperback. ![]() The Barbarous Coast is a 1956 detective novel by Canadian-American author Ross Macdonald, the sixth to feature private investigator Lew Archer and his eleventh novel overall. ![]()
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