Author: Ross Macdonald
Year: 2007
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Mystery, Fiction, Short Stories, Crime
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9781932009637
9781101910122
1932009639
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Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) was the author of eighteen books that a New York Times critic called the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American : the Lew Archer canon, which included such breakthrough best-sellers as "The Underground Man," "The Goodbye Look," and "The Blue Hammer. " Macdonald (born Kenneth Millar) also wrote several novelettes and short-stories involving Southern California private-detective Lew Archer. "The Archer Files" for the first time collects all the brief Archer fiction: the stories from Macdonald s 1955 paperback-original "The Name Is Archer," the additional tales included in the Otto Penzler-edited 1977 volume "Lew Archer: Private Investigator," and the three then-unknown novellas presented in Crippen & Landru s 2001 book "Strangers in Town." Also included in "The Archer Files" are several lengthy, never-before-published fragments of unfinished Macdonald stories: case notes, as it were, from the files of Lew Archer. Edited by Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan, "The Archer Files" is prefaced with Nolan s biographical sketch of Lew Archer himself -- the character Eudora Welty described as "a champion" and "a distinguished creation ... As a detective and as a man he takes the human situation with full seriousness. " Jeff Wong s cover is adapted from the 1955 paperback original, but depicting Ross Macdonald rather than Lew Archer.
This book is part of the "Lew Archer" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Blue Hammer"
First published in 1976
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 | "The Underground Man"
First published in 1971
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 | "The Goodbye Look"
First published in 1969
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 | "The Instant Enemy"
First published in 1968
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 | "Black Money"
First published in 1966
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 | "The Chill"
First published in 1963
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 | "The Wycherly Woman"
First published in 1961
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 | "The Galton Case"
First published in 1959
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 | "The Doomsters"
First published in 1958
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 | "The Barbarous Coast"
First published in 1956
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 | "The Name is Archer"
First published in 1955
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 | "Find a Victim"
First published in 1954
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 | "The Ivory Grin"
First published in 1952
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 | "The Drowning Pool"
First published in 1950
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 | "The Moving Target"
First published in 1949
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