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 Two

by | 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...

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...

MEET ME AT THE MORGUE Part Ten

by | Jun 19, 2022 | Blog Posts, Meet Me at the Morgue

                                                                                                                                   SPOILER ALERT              Macdonald Sidelined Archer Without a Good Reason     Meet Me at the Morgue is a fine mystery....