April, 2022 - Author Neil Albert

The Ivory Grin — Part Thirteen

by Neil Albert | Apr 25, 2022 | Blog Posts, The Ivory Grin

Spoiler Alert Summing up An Advance over His Previous Book The Way Some People Die was cleverly plotted, with vivid characters and unexpected turns, but it is...

The Ivory Grin — Part Twelve

by Neil Albert | Apr 20, 2022 | Blog Posts, The Ivory Grin

BORROWINGS AND FORESHADOWINGS One of the pleasures of reading a mystery series is tracing material from one source to another. Macdonald lived in a world where regular and frequent publication was essential to his...

The Ivory Grin — Part Eleven

by Neil Albert | Apr 15, 2022 | Blog Posts, The Ivory Grin

Lew Archer’s Love Life in One Paragraph Between 1949 and 1976, Macdonald published 19 Lew Archer novels and one book of Lew Archer short stories, plus six non-Archer books. In the output of his entire...