by Neil Albert | Jul 14, 2022 | Blog Posts, Find a Victim
I’ve Got Friends in Low Places A few slaps with the Sheriff’s automatic have apparently shaken the stupid out of Archer, because his next move, to Kerrigan’s bar, the Golden Slipper, is a good idea. The bar boasts...
by Neil Albert | Jul 9, 2022 | Blog Posts, Find a Victim
Working the Edges Nothing happens by accident in a Ross Macdonald book, and the car ride with Hilda Church is no exception. Hilda has issues with men, partly based on her own negative experiences and partly...
by Neil Albert | Jul 4, 2022 | Blog Posts, Find a Victim
I Swear I Had a Client Around Here Somewhere In all the Archer books, Macdonald is careful to provide Archer with a client, no matter how far afield the investigation strays from the original assignment. Sometimes Archer foregoes a written...
by Neil Albert | Jun 29, 2022 | Blog Posts, Find a Victim
“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...
by Neil Albert | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog Posts, Find a Victim
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...
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