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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...
Jul 31, 2009 · A passion for mercy. Hailed as one of the 'holy trinity of American crime writers', Ross Macdonald surpassed his predecessors Chandler and Hammett, writing detective novels informed by sorrows...
December 13, 1915. Died. July 11, 1983. Genre. Mystery & Thrillers. edit data. Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer.
Millions of Macdonald's books were sold. After twenty years in the mystery field, Ross Macdonald was an overnight success. The world at large discovered a writer already well known to mystery fans. Crime-fiction reviewers had long hailed Macdonald as the hard-boiled successor to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
Aug 24, 2018 · “It’s all one case.” That’s how private detective Lew Archer sums up his investigation into three seemingly unrelated murders near the climax of The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Ross Macdonald’s 1962 classic California crime novel. Those four words would long outlive the book.
Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Crime novelist and creator of the private eye Lew Archer, Ross MacDonald is often linked to his predecessors Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as a master of the "hard-boiled" school of detective fiction, but MacDonald added a psychological depth and a unity of theme which was unique.
Sep 15, 2017 · September 15, 2017. Ross Macdonald, True Detective. The '50s noir novelist investigated sources of rot in the American grain. Illustration by John Ritter.
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