The Ross MacDonald Blog
The Dark Tunnel–Part Seven
THE DARK TUNNEL Part Seven The...
The Dark Tunnel–Part Six
THE DARK TUNNEL Part Six The Murders Begin ...
The Dark Tunnel–Part Five
THE DARK TUNNEL Part Five The Game is Afoot By the time we reach...
The Dark Tunnel–Part Four
THE DARK TUNNEL Part Four Doctor Schneider Throws Killer Dinner Parties...
The Dark Tunnel–Part Three
THE DARK TUNNEL Part Three Munich 1937 Chapter Two consists...
The Dark Tunnel–Part Two
THE DARK TUNNEL Part Two Let’s Talk About the Opening ...
The Dark Tunnel Part One
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...
Welcome to the Ross Macdonald Blog
Why Ross Macdonald? Because he is one of the three greatest writers in the genre of the hardboiled private eye, along with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chander. We can leave the exact ranking for another day. And because I once read a Ray Bradbury short story with the...
The title of his book, Trouble Follows Me, is From Life
The title of his book Trouble Follows Me, is From His Own Life A child is just three when his father abandons him and his mother. His father fails to provide support. His mother, weakened by both physical and mental illness, is often bedridden. When he is...
Finding Ross MacDonald
The Marple Township Library, 1973 I was a first-year law student, living near a public library in a Philadelphia suburb. I hadn’t used a public library since I was in grade school, but I was broke, and it was a block from my apartment. I hadn’t read any mysteries at...
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