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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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.