The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross?Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing.?They remain thrilling for their seari
At last, the brilliant successor to Hammett and Chandler in a definitive collector’s edition:Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafton, George Pelecanos, and James Ellroy, Ross Macdonald (th
Ross Macdonald transformed the detective novel into a literary expression of unique psychological depth and drama. Here, for the first time in a deluxe three-volume Library of America boxed set, are e
No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on—a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person—the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade
In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his m
A 2016 Edgar Award finalist, the ?intimate, luminous portrait of a friendship” of two American literary icons (Kirkus, starred review).In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning
From his vantage point in Southern California—and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer—Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly imme
