The Archer Files, Ross MacDonald Revisited

THE ARCHER FILES, THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF LEW ARCHER, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR Connoisseurs of 20th Century detective fiction regard the Lew Archer books by Ross MacDonald as the best ever written. The plots are original, the characters vivid, and the language is elegant and laced with occasional gems of sardonic humor on the part of […]

The Little Sister

The Little Sister

The Little Sister – A first Philip Marlowe novel brings this reviewer into an enthusiastic appreciation of Raymond Chandler who makes (for me) the mystery genre something all his own. Book reviewing is a difficult task when the time for reading has been wiped out by the Hell of Moving. After three months of unpacking, […]