The novels of Ross Macdonald

In his examination of Macdonald's eighteen detective novels, Kreyling suggests that this author elevated a popular genre from the plateau reached by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler to a level of sophistication yet to be surpassed. Kreyling takes a fresh look at forgotten works as well as...

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1. Verfasser: Kreyling, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Columbia, SC Univ. of South Carolina Press 2005
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  • Constants
  • An unhappy childhood is practically indispensable
  • Literary fathers and Archer's debut: The moving target (1949)
  • The rock and the hard place : Chandler and Hammett
  • Freud and Archer : the detective as analyst
  • I wish they all could be California girls : Archer in the 1960s
  • Love and ruin : The underground man, Sleeping beauty, The blue hammer
  • The genre after Macdonald.