The Galton Case: A Lew Archer Novel
 From Amazon.com: The Galton Case, published in 1959, was Ross Macdonald's breakthrough book. Its predecessors are craftsmanlike, highly literate, hard-boiled detective stories; The Galton Case and most of its successors are literature that happens to [... more]
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The Doomsters
Author: Ross Macdonald Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9780307279040 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0307279049 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2007-12-04 Release Date: 2007-12-04 [... more]
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The Way Some People Die
Author: Ross Macdonald Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780307278982 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0307278980 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2007-07-10 Release Date: 2007-07-10 [... more]
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The Goodbye Look
Author: Ross Macdonald Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9780375708657 ISBN: 0375708650 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2000-12-05 Release Date: 2000-12-05 [... more]
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The Moving Target
Mesmerizing!: This book starts out like the typical mystery novel . . . with a mystery, a detective, and the hint of trouble. However, before long, you can't help but realize this book is no typical mystery. This book is paced as furiously as any mystery, [... more]
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The Wycherly Woman
Very well done: This is only the second book I have read by MacDonald but it certainly won't be the last. The plot and characterizations were both very strong. From what I have read so far, MacDonald compares very favorably with Hammett and Chandler. The [... more]
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The Zebra-Striped Hearse
Routine Hard-Boiled: Book number 11 in the 18-volume Lew Archer series is the first of MacDonald's books I've read. Published forty years prior to my reading, it's aged fairly well as a highly convoluted Chalderesque hard-boiled tale. The tough and terse [... more]
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Black Money
From Amazon.com: Next time someone who doesn't read mysteries asks where they should start, point them toward Ross Macdonald. Luckily, Vintage/Black Lizard is reprinting several of Macdonald's classic Lew Archer novels in handsome new quality paperback [... more]
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The Underground Man: A Lew Archer Novel
The best of the best: The Underground Man was the first Lew Archer novel I had ever read. I was 12 or 13 and was looking for something other than the Stephen King and Michael Crichton potboilers that were so popular at the time . Reading this book was an [... more]
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The Drowning Pool
From Amazon.com: Most writers who work in a specific genre such as science fiction or detective stories write with a comfortable narrowness, their ambitions constricted by well-worn conventions; a rare few attain something much deeper, as the scope of [... more]
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Sleeping Beauty
Ross MacDonald's Best: One of the obvious observations about Ross MacDonald's series of Lew Archer detective novels is that they are essentially the same story. Eerily MacDonald's plot lines reflect his own troubled and unsettled childhood. On the [... more]
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The Chill
From Amazon.com: "The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure," wrote Ross Macdonald in his 1981 Self-Portrait. Nowhere in his work does he better [... more]
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