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Find a Victim — Part Two
“Great Starts Can Lead to Muddled Middles” --Ross Macdonald, speaking of Find a Victim Macdonald was always sensitive to the importance of his first scene. He employed many different...
Find a Victim — Part One
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY “Find a Victim is the noir-est of Macdonald’s early Archer novels . . . the bottom line of Find a Victim is negative . . . Macdonald finds the penal code next to irrelevant in describing or...
MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Ten
SPOILER ALERT Macdonald Sidelined Archer Without a Good Reason Meet Me at the Morgue is a fine mystery....
MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Nine
SPOILER ALERT Masterful But not Perfect Plotting Peter Wolfe, in Dreamers Who Live Their Dreams, rightly calls this a “tightly built novel.” Everyone who is important to the resolution of the mystery is on...
MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Eight
SPOILER ALERT Wrapping it Up The reader will no doubt have a sense of relief that the trip from Pacific Point to San Diego was not at gunpoint. Helen has been through enough for one week. More practically, if Amy...
MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Seven
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MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Six
Closing in on the Kidnappers at Last Cross rushes to the Johnson home; our favorite lawyer, Larry Steifel is there, drunk and making moves on the new widow. Steifel makes himself annoying to everyone in the house except Abel Johnson, who...
MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Five
Running Down the Clues Using the card from the detective agency as well as a label from the dead man’s clothes, Cross moves the investigation along. Although he has no investigative training, he could give Archer a run for his...
MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Four
An Encounter with Tiresias Following the instructions in the ransom note, Cross goes to the drop off point at the train station next to the newsstand. A lesser writer would have obtained a lead from the newsstand operator...
MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Three
Late to the Party Chapter Two opens with the appearance at the courthouse of Amy Miner, Fred’s wife. She is highly upset but Cross manages to get out of her that a ransom demand of fifty thousand dollars has been made,...
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