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Tag Archives: Ross Macdonald
REVIEW: The Chill – Ross Macdonald
Lew Archer is hired by a young man, Alex Kincaid, to find his wife Dolly, who has suddenly disappeared. They had not known each other long, and Alex has not been able to persuade the sheriff’s department to take her … Continue reading
Meet Me At The Morgue – Ross Macdonald
(Vintage e-book 2010, originally published in 1953) This is one of Macdonald’s earlier novels, and doesn’t feature Lew Archer, his main protagonist and narrator, but with very little alteration, Meet Me At The Morgue could be an Archer novel. The … Continue reading
The Instant Enemy – Ross Macdonald
This book begins immediately at the Sebastian house, where Keith and Bernice’s daughter Alexandria, more commonly known as Sandy, has gone missing, along with her father’s shotgun and a box of ammunition. Keith Sebastian has hired Lew Archer to find … Continue reading
Sleeping Beauty – Ross Macdonald
(Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2000, originally published 1973) This is one of Macdonald’s later Lew Archer novels: the last, The Blue Hammer, was published in 1976 (Macdonald died in 1983, at the age of sixty-eight). There’s a rather dark and nocturnal … Continue reading
The Barbarous Coast – Ross Macdonald
(Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2007, originally published 1956) Ross Macdonald was the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar, who was married to Margaret Millar, also a writer of detective/mystery novels. His novels featuring private detective Lew Archer were written in the ‘hard-boiled’ tradition … Continue reading
Posted in Crime fiction, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged betrayal, California, hard-boiled detective fiction, Lew Archer, motives, murder, PI, Ross Macdonald, sisterly love
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