by Neil Albert | Oct 27, 2022 | Blog Posts, The Doomster
AN UNCONVENTIONAL BEGINNING Macdonald takes his starting point from his short story, “The Angry Man,” with Archer being confronted at his home in the early hours of the morning by a stranger demanding help. But unlike the...
by Neil Albert | Oct 22, 2022 | Blog Posts, The Doomster
WE HAVEN’T FINISHED WITH THE COMMENTATORS A Comment from the Author “It is out of character for Archer to provide autobiography because his own life is suppressed, Millar told an English...
by Neil Albert | Oct 17, 2022 | Blog Posts, The Doomster
WHAT THE COMMENATORS HAVE TO SAY A lot, and for several reasons. Anyone familiar with Macdonald knows that he came into his artistic maturity with The Galton Case. It wasn’t his best-selling book and perhaps it wasn’t his best,...
by Neil Albert | Oct 12, 2022 | Blog Posts
Tom Nolan has written a first-class biography of Macdonald and it is not my aim to compete with him. I hope that my own work, which focusses almost exclusively on Macdonald’s books, is a useful supplement to Nolan, who discusses the books only as necessary to tell...
by Neil Albert | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog Posts, The Barbarous Coast
Spoiler Alert The Good and the Bad First, the good: Macdonald achieves a rapid pace that...
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