The Dark Tunnel Part One

                                BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING:  THE DARK TUNNEL   “Everyone has a mass of bad work in him that he will have to work off and get rid of before he can do better and indeed the more lasting a man’s good work, the more sure he is to pass...

Welcome to the Ross Macdonald Blog

Why Ross Macdonald? Because he is one of the three greatest writers in the genre of the hardboiled private eye, along with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chander. We can leave the exact ranking for another day. And because I once read a Ray Bradbury short story with the...

Finding Ross MacDonald

The Marple Township Library, 1973 I was a first-year law student, living near a public library in a Philadelphia suburb. I hadn’t used a public library since I was in grade school, but I was broke, and it was a block from my apartment. I hadn’t read any mysteries at...