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MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Two
A STRONG BEGINNING The Opening Line is, “I met the boy on the morning of the kidnapping.” Nobody can stop reading at that point The narrator, Howard Cross, a probation officer, arrives at work...
MEET ME AT THE MOURGE Part One
A SERIOUSLY UNDERAPPRECIATED BOOK Where’s Lew? “Negative space, in art, is the empty space around and...
Failing to Progress
Writer’s Block I am reading Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, by Ruth Franklin. My knowledge of Shirley Jackson is limited to The Haunting of Hill House and...
The Ivory Grin — Part Thirteen
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
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
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...
The Ivory Grin — Part Ten
Spoiler Alert THINGS GO SIDEWAYS ...
The Ivory Grin — Part Nine
Spoiler Alert LAYING IT OUT ...
The Ivory Grin — Part Eight
Spoiler Alert FILLING IT IN I Talk, You...
The Ivory Grin — Part Seven
Spoiler Alert IT STARTS TO COME TOGETHER ...
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