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...