THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Six

                                                                    Spoiler Alert                                                              This Calls for a Drink                      After Graff leaves, Archer marvels that Bassett stood up to the most powerful...

THE BARBAROUS COAST — Part Five

                                      The House of Broken Dreams   Macdonald doesn’t reveal what Archer thinks about the story of sudden good fortune of Hester and her mother, but whatever credit he gave it, doesn’t last long. Teeny Campbell, Hester’s...

The Barbarous Coast — Part Four

                                                                                 On The Road Again Although Archer could have gone directly to Anton’s Ballet, he decides to follow up on his most recent lead first, trying to find the identity of the gangster who took...

The Barbarous Coast — Part Three

  Although Tony Torres had been looking for Wall to escort him to Basset’s office, Wall had taken matters into his own hands and scaled the wall, cutting himself and his clothing in the process. It’s a small point but it’ a good introduction to his impulsive...

The Barbarous Coast — Part Two

And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. — T. S. Eliot Macdonald’s books are road books.  His detective is often on the move, especially in the early books.  Even after The Moving Target, where...