Ross MacDonald
Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Canada, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983.
Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Canada, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983. See less
Ross MacDonald's Featured Books
Ross MacDonald book reviews
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The Galton Case: A Lew Archer Novel
As Wild As Life
"The Galton Case" (1959) is the eighth in a series of crime novels by Ross Macdonald featuring private detective Lew Archer and the third to be included in a compilation of the Library of America of ... Read More
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The Doomsters
To An Unborn Pauper Child
Late in Ross Macdonald's crime novel, "The Doomsters" the main female character, Mildred, remarks to Macdonald's redoubtable detective, Lew Archer, that "it was a hideous world, a crime to bring ... Read More
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The Way Some People Die
Fifty A Day And Expenses
At the outset of "The Way Some People Die" (1951), private detective Lew Archer is invited to a run-down old rooming house in Santa Monica, California where a widow in her fifties, Mrs. Lawrence, ... Read More
