Word: archer
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Sneaky question for a book reviewer who complains that Ross Macdonald has written the same Lew Archer detective story 19 times in a row: "How do you know, O sage...
...instance, is Archer entirely stable? We have only his word, after all, for the outlandish things that happen during his investigations. Is it really likely that practically every case a detective works on could hinge on a hideous crime committed a generation before, in the presence of a tiny child, who blocks the memory from his consciousness and thus, grown to adulthood, is a psychological time bomb? Wouldn't it be a good idea for Archer to see a shrink...
Another thing, isn't it about time for Macdonald to give Archer another raise? When he began gumshoeing, back in 1949, he made $50 a day, and now he charges $100. It's just not enough. Even if he cracks one case a week, he has to solve 40 cases a year just to make...
...Rahilly initially staffed Radio Caroline (whose theme song, naturally, is Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline) with three London deejays: Andy Archer, Crispin St. John and Peter Chicago. He paid them in advance, but somehow he neglected to pay Mi Amigo's Dutch captain or the six-man crew. Between Christmas and New Year's, the crew quit. Captain Will van der Kamp, in the best seagoing tradition, refused to abandon ship. But feeling threatened by the deejays, he armed himself with a rifle and locked himself in his cabin on the bridge...
DWAYNE O. ANDREAS, 54, Miami Beach, chairman of First Interoceanic Corp., chairman of the executive committee of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (flour and soybean products). Gifts: Humphrey, $75,000; Nixon, $25,000. His money earmarked for the Nixon campaign was later found by the FBI in the bank account of one of the original Watergate Five...