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...

Introduction–The Man

         The title of his book Trouble Follows Me, is From His Own Life                                                         Part One—The Man   A child is just three when his father abandons him and his mother. His father fails to...