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M, c, 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

For 20 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dickens from Detroit | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

The play's plot follows the lives of a Black family living in Chicago's Southside ghetto. The family includes Mama Younger (Stephanie Wilford), her single daughter Beneatha Younger (Frettra Miller) and married son Walter Lee Younger (Kerrick Johnson) Living with the family are Walter's wife Ruth (Diane Cardwell...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: Universal Love Story | 5/2/1984 | See Source »

The fire department believes that a soldering instrument left outside the tutorial office by construction workers caused the fire, said Lt. Michael Travis.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Fire Damage | 11/17/1983 | See Source »

But most cases of private violence are closer calls. What to do about a man who rapes his wife? What about the fights between spouses that are not pat, villain-and-victim episodes? What about Barrel Trueblood of Terre Haute, Ind., whose son Travis was taken from him for three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Violence | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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