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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tough investigators are concentrated mostly in New York and in California, the Olduvai Gorge of the chivalrous gumshoe. By far the best known are the West Coast trio of Hammett's Sam Spade, Chandler's Marlowe and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer. Occasional readers of the form tend to confuse Ross with John D. MacDonald and Gregory Mcdonald. The first was born Kenneth Millar in 1915 and died three years ago of Alzheimer's disease. The second is 69 and lives in Florida, as does his popular P.I. Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neither Tarnished Nor Afraid | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...live in a time when academic skills and orientation confer an advantage. In other times, other skills i.e. hunter, horseman, archer, etc, were more valuable[sic]. High academic achievers must realize, however, that they are in the minority in this country and certainly in the world as it is currently structured. Those of us with education can either put down our fellow man or reach down to insure that each has an opportunity to fulfill his destiny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Nick... Mail From Duluth | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

...First Among Equals, Archer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers: Feb. 25, 1985 | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...First Among Equals, Archer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers: Feb. 18, 1985 | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...First Among Equals, Archer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers: Feb. 11, 1985 | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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