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Jul 7, 2024 · Ross Macdonald (born Dec. 13, 1915, Los Gatos, Calif., U.S.—died July 11, 1983, Santa Barbara, Calif.) was an American mystery writer who is credited with elevating the detective novel to the level of literature with his compactly written tales of murder and despair.
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Jul 13, 1983 · Ross Macdonald, whose tightly written novels about the hard-boiled private eye Lew Archer lifted the modern detective novel to the level of literature, died of Alzheimer's disease Monday night in...
Complete order of Ross MacDonald books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
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- July 11, 1983
- December 13, 1915
- The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
- The Chill (Lew Archer, #11)
- The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
- The Galton Case (Lew Archer, #8)
Aug 24, 2018 · Ross Macdonald was a master at bringing those connections to life. In Macdonald’s world, no violent crime takes place in a vacuum; every act of violence has roots in the past; and the integrity of the justice system depends on understanding those connections.
Apr 12, 2019 · “By any standard he was remarkable,” Tom Nolan raves of this crime novelist in his top-class 1999 book, Ross Macdonald: A Biography. Nolan—a former child actor turned L.A.-area journalist, who since 1990 has been The Wall Street Journal ’s mystery fiction critic—didn’t reach that opinion without effort.