Sleeping Beauty was a beautiful child (novel)

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Sleeping Beauty was a beautiful child (in English original: Sleeping Beauty ) is a detective novel by Ross Macdonald from 1973. The German translation is by Günter Eichel .

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The novel is about a missing young woman named Lauren. Private detective Archer is supposed to find her because she is suicidal and disappeared with a packet of potentially fatal sleeping pills. What at first looks like a simple search assignment soon becomes difficult after a kidnapping and several deliberate killings. Lew Archer digs deep into the family history and discovers some ugly secrets in the process.

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• Ross Macdonald: Sleeping Beauty was a beautiful child . 13th edition. Diogenes Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-257-20227-X (English: Sleeping Beauty . Translated by Günter Eichel, German first edition 1975).

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• Thomas Kürten: Sleeping Beauty was a beautiful child. Ross MacDonald. In: krimi-couch.de. September 2007, accessed November 9, 2013 (review).