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Trouble Follows me Part Two
TROUBLE FOLLOWS ME What Do The Critics Have to Say? Not So...
Trouble Follows Me Part One
TROUBLE FOLLOWS ME PART ONE Avast, Me Hearties! “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is...
The Dark Tunnel
THE DARK TUNNEL Spoiler Alert Do You Know What Time it is? One of the charms of reading Macdonald’s mature fiction is its...
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 us;...
Introduction–The Work
AN INTRODUCTION Part Two--His Work If Ross Macdonald had simply suppressed his disadvantaged upbringing and become an...
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...
New Blog Format
ANNOUNCING THE NEW, IMPROVED BLOG Fewer Calories and Still Tastes Great For two years I have been following a long-form approach, devoting between ten and twenty posts to each...
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