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...small d. That Mcdonald. Not the late Ross Macdonald, creator of the estimable Lew Archer, nor John D. MacDonald, inventor of Travis McGee. Why three unrelated Americans with, more or less, the same Scottish clan name should have written some of the best detective stories of the past couple of decades is, appropriately enough, a mystery. But Gregory Mcdonald is appealingly fresh and impudent in his tales of Fletch, the irreverent reporter, and Flynn, the Boston supercop. The civilized and resourceful Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn is on duty here, spying out malefaction at something called the Rod and Gun Club...
...years, he has watched the creators of Lew Archer and Travis McGee pick up all the applause and critical esteem. No longer. At 58, after 24 novels in 32 years, Elmore Leonard has finally won it all: money, raves and, this month, an Edgar-the Mystery Writers of America version of the Oscar. No more is he the hard-cover talent with the paperback rep. His most recent books have been phenomenal sellers, four major publishers are reissuing 14 of his works, and Avon has just paid $363,000 for paperback rights to his latest, LaBrava. The film...
Remember, this is the school that sent Lew Alcindor to UCLA before he became Kareem Abdul Jabbar. It's usually one of the top five or ten teams in a city full of good high school basketball teams-not astoundingly great, but up there...
Peterson, 57, Secretary of Commerce under President Nixon, stunned Wall Street by announcing that he will leave Lehman Bros, next January in order to turn over full control to Lewis Glucksman, 57, who became co-chief executive only two months ago. Said Peterson: "Lew told me that after considerable thought, he had concluded that this arrangement fell short of permitting him the fulfillment of his larger goals and of realizing the full potential of his capabilities. He told me that he felt he could achieve that fulfillment only by assuming the sole direction of the firm...
DIED. Ross Macdonald, 67, writer of taut, psychologically acute detective novels; of Alzheimer's disease, which he had had for three years; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In such books as The Moving Target, The Gallon Case and The Chill, his sleuth Lew Archer roamed Southern California through false fronts and cracked surfaces to unearth his clients' dark familial sins and secrets that almost always led to murder. Born Kenneth Millar, he adopted his pseudonym after his wife Margaret became a successful mystery novelist. Though his early work echoed Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, his only peers among modern...