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...Jeffrey Archer is a writer of beach books (Kane & Abel; First Among Equals) who was once the youngest member of the House of Commons, and is now deputy chairman of Britain's Conservative Party. As writerly credentials go, these are well up on the customary "shipped out on a tramp steamer" and "parachuted into occupied France...
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...
...classic shamus prefers a snub-nosed .38, made in the U.S.A. He is invariably single (Philip Marlowe was a bachelor until Chandler's last, unfinished novel; Lew Archer lives alone, as does Spenser, although Spenser keeps company with Susan Silverman, a compassionate shrink). He is also short of cash and careless about his clothing. He is a two-fisted drinker (even though James Crumley's Milo Milodragovitch goes for peppermint schnapps) and sometimes drops his guard long enough to reveal a flash of erudition (Marlowe has atrocious taste in socks but can quote Browning). Touches of class cater...
...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...
...First Among Equals, Archer...