Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SMALL confession: I love Ross Macdonald...
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...
...right, all right. I read Macdonald because I like...
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...
Decay. All in character, of course. Archer is as much loser as winner. In his wash-and-wear slacks and sports jacket he shoulders resentfully among the heedless rich and the heedless young who are the villains of Macdonald's recurrent daydream, and ours. Roughly at first, then with a rough man's compassion, he rubs their noses in mortality, the loser's truth. See the proud millionaire grovel, as Archer spades up the moldering past! See the sneering teenager whine, as Archer lays bare the certain decay that lies ahead...