The Dark Tunnel

                                        THE DARK TUNNEL                                       What do the critics have to say?           Peter Wolfe, in Dreamers Who Live Their Dreams, devotes more time to the early books (34 pages) than any of the other...

The Dark Tunnel

                   BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING:  THE DARK TUNNEL     “Everyone has a mass of bad work in him that he will have to work off and get rid of before he can do better and indeed the more lasting a man’s good work, the more sure he is to pass through a...

Finding Ross Macdonald

                                   FINDING ROSS MACDONALD                                                                                The Marple Township Library, 1973   I was a first-year law student, living near a public library in a...

Introduction–Part Three

                                        AN INTRODUCTION                                                                       Part Three–Towards a Balanced View   Macdonald was unquestionably a great mystery writer and is still very much with...

Introduction–The Work

                                    AN INTRODUCTION                                                                                                  Part Two–His Work   If Ross Macdonald had simply suppressed his disadvantaged upbringing and...