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 Archer Files, The Complete Short Stories of Lew ...
Lew Archer is Back!: All the Crippen and Landur books are great, but this time we have not only all the short stories, but also a small biography of Archer and ideas of possible stories. The collection is GREAT. (Its a sheme that no one developed the [... more]
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Strangers in Town: Three Newly Discovered Mysteries
strangers in town: It has been 17 years since I last read a new Ross MacDonald book. Boy, was it great to get back to a real master. Even the Introduction was informative and well written. The three stories in this book are typical Ross MacDonald short [... more]
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The Doomsters (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Lew Archer in his prime: In some ways The Doomsters is a typical Lew Archer thriller: it involves a missing suspected murderer, family strife, and mysterious deaths in the distant past. This time, Archer falls in love and self-interest actually hinders [... more]
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The Barbarous Coast (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Not one of his best, but a good read anyway: It's nice to visit old friends. I haven't read any of Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer novels in a long, long time. Macdonald's prose hasn't lost any of its punch for me over the years. Like Anthony Boucher says, & [... more]
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The Galton Case (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Amazon.com Review: 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 Instant Enemy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Fast paced, superbly constructed.: The Instant Enemy is the quintessential Ross Macdonald novel. Why? Because it incorporates so many of the elements Macdonald held near and dear to his heart. These include: -Family tragedies that repeat themselves over [... more]
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The Underground Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
PRETTY MUCH THE BEST: Though he's generally listed third in the triumvirate--Dashiell Hammett (The Father); Raymond Chandler (The Son); and Ross MacDonald (The Holy Ghost)--Mr. MacDonald is more properly recognized as the greatest of the private eye [... 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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Archer at Large: Three Great Lew Archer Novels of Suspense
Author: Ross MacDonald Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9789997402509 ISBN: 9997402502 Number Of Pages: 626 Publication Date: 1970-06 [... more]
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The Far Side of the Dollar: Library Edition
Author: Ross MacDonald Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780786198894 Edition: Unabridged Format: Unabridged ISBN: 0786198893 Publication Date: 2000-01 [... more]
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The Moving Target
He "Was Driving a '46 Car and Had a Modern Girl Beside Him": "The Moving Target," (1949) was the first novel Canadian-American hard-boiled mystery author Kenneth Millar published under his pseudonym "Ross Macdonald;" it was [... more]
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