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The Doomsters Part Four
LET’S MEET MILDRED HALLMAN Archer’s next stop, via a cab, is a visit to Carl’s wife—the task he’d promised before Carl stole his car. Archer’s visit to the hospital was a good narrative move, because his conversations there give him...
The Doomsters Part Three
AN UNCONVENTIONAL BEGINNING Macdonald takes his starting point from his short story, “The Angry Man,” with Archer being confronted at his home in the early hours of the morning by a stranger demanding help. But unlike the...
The Doomsters Part Two
WE HAVEN’T FINISHED WITH THE COMMENTATORS A Comment from the Author “It is out of character for Archer to provide autobiography because his own life is suppressed, Millar told an English...
The Doomsters Part One
WHAT THE COMMENATORS HAVE TO SAY A lot, and for several reasons. Anyone familiar with Macdonald knows that he came into his artistic maturity with The Galton Case. It wasn’t his best-selling book and perhaps it wasn’t his best,...
A Note on Linda Millar
Tom Nolan has written a first-class biography of Macdonald and it is not my aim to compete with him. I hope that my own work, which focusses almost exclusively on Macdonald’s books, is a useful supplement to Nolan, who discusses the books only as necessary to tell...
THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Ten
Spoiler Alert The Good and the Bad First, the good: Macdonald achieves a rapid pace that...
THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Nine
Spoiler Alert If That’s What You Think, You Ought to See a Shrink When Archer gets to work, nothing stops him. After leaving Rina behind at the LA airport he...
THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Eight
Spoiler Alert The Perfect Patsy Rina wakes up, still groggy from her sleeping pill, and she and Archer start to...
THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Seven
Spoiler Alert The Pace Quickens, Sort of Archer spent Chapter 21 through 23, a matter of 18 pages in my edition, in conversation with Tobias. But...
THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Six
Spoiler Alert This Calls for a Drink After Graff leaves, Archer marvels that Bassett stood up to the most powerful...
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