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Ross MacDonald may refer to: Ross MacDonald (musician), musician with The 1975. Ross MacDonald (sailor), Canadian sailor. Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer of crime fiction.
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.
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.
“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. To prepare his account, he ...
Complete order of Ross MacDonald books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
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...
Lew Archer Series. 18 primary works • 37 total works. Lew Archer, an ex-cop and private investigator, in Los Angeles, California:
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Author Ross MacDonald's list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.
Ross Macdonald has 176 books on Goodreads with 107161 ratings. Ross Macdonald’s most popular book is The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2).