Find a Victim — Part Six

by | Jul 19, 2022 | Blog Posts, Find a Victim

                                  The Worst Motel Stay Ever       The lights are on in the office of Kerrigan’s motel, giving Archer a clear view of the owners’ brains.  Kerrigan had been shot once, between the eyes, with a gun that Archer guesses might...

Find a Victim — Part Five

by | 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...

Find a Victim — Part Four

by | 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...

Find a Victim — Part Three

by | 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...

Find a Victim — Part One

by | 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...