Word: macdonald
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...have attracted a steadily growing international audience and collected a handful of top mystery-writing prizes. More than that, Freeling goes beyond the formulas of suspense to offer a complex picture of postwar Europe, uneasy with its new prosperity and haunted by past fears. In American thrillers, only Ross Macdonald's use of the surf and drug culture of California has similar resonance. Like Macdonald, Freeling writes so well that readers may feel he should devote himself to straight fiction or -considering the state of the contemporary novel-be grateful that he does...
...STUART MACDONALD Tacoma, Wash...
...Richard Nixon the same sort of peacemaker as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson? They are the only two American Presidents to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott and Editor Elizabeth MacDonald Manning of Finance magazine, a monthly for bank ers and economists, are joining forces to nominate Nixon for the prize. In a recent editorial, Finance asserted...
...carno question invites endless literary lawyering. Is it not possible, for instance, to write excitingly about violence without being a carnographer? Yes, of course; James Jones' fine combat novel The Thin Red Line is not carno, nor is James Dickey's Deliverance, nor Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer stories. Mickey Spillane's 1, the Jury is carno. No, it is not possible to draw a line, and yes, David Morrell's First Blood is unmistakably carno, well over the line that can't be drawn...
FLASH FOR FREEDOM! by GEORGE MacDONALD FRASER 287 pages. Knopf...