About Ross MacDonald
Ross Macdonald was the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar who was born in California and educated in Canada and at the University of Michigan, where he also taught. In 1938 he married the writer Margaret Millar. He served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946. He published his first novel, The Dark Tunnel, in 1944 and his first Lew Archer story, The Moving Target, in 1949. He became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America in 1973.
Series
Chet Gordon (writing as Kenneth Millar)
1. The Dark Tunnel (1944)
aka I Die Slowly
2. Trouble Follows Me (1946)
aka Night Train
1. The Dark Tunnel (1944)
aka I Die Slowly
2. Trouble Follows Me (1946)
aka Night Train
Lew Archer
1. The Moving Target (1949)
aka Harper
2. The Drowning Pool (1950)
3. The Way Some People Die (1951)
4. The Ivory Grin (1952)
aka Marked for Murder
5. Find a Victim (1954)
6. The Barbarous Coast (1956)
7. The Doomsters (1958)
8. The Galton Case (1959)
9. The Wycherly Woman (1961)
10. The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962)
11. The Chill (1964)
12. The Far Side of the Dollar (1965)
13. Black Money (1966)
14. The Instant Enemy (1968)
15. The Goodbye Look (1969)
16. The Underground Man (1971)
17. Sleeping Beauty (1973)
18. The Blue Hammer (1976)
The Name Is Archer (1955)
Archer in Hollywood (omnibus) (1967)
Lew Archer, Private Investigator (1977)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume One (omnibus) (1993)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume Two (omnibus) (1994)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume Three (omnibus) (1997)
1. The Moving Target (1949)
aka Harper
2. The Drowning Pool (1950)
3. The Way Some People Die (1951)
4. The Ivory Grin (1952)
aka Marked for Murder
5. Find a Victim (1954)
6. The Barbarous Coast (1956)
7. The Doomsters (1958)
8. The Galton Case (1959)
9. The Wycherly Woman (1961)
10. The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962)
11. The Chill (1964)
12. The Far Side of the Dollar (1965)
13. Black Money (1966)
14. The Instant Enemy (1968)
15. The Goodbye Look (1969)
16. The Underground Man (1971)
17. Sleeping Beauty (1973)
18. The Blue Hammer (1976)
The Name Is Archer (1955)
Archer in Hollywood (omnibus) (1967)
Lew Archer, Private Investigator (1977)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume One (omnibus) (1993)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume Two (omnibus) (1994)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume Three (omnibus) (1997)
Novels
Blue City (1947) (writing as Kenneth Millar)
The Three Roads (1948) (writing as Kenneth Millar)
Meet Me at the Morgue (1954)
aka Experience With Evil
The Ferguson Affair (1960)
Archer in Jeopardy (1979)
The Three Roads (1948) (writing as Kenneth Millar)
Meet Me at the Morgue (1954)
aka Experience With Evil
The Ferguson Affair (1960)
Archer in Jeopardy (1979)
Omnibus
Collections
Anthologies containing stories by Ross MacDonald
Short stories
| Midnight Blue (1960) | |||
| Gone Girl |
Books about Ross MacDonald
Ross MacDonald recommends
Hiding Place (1973) (Frank Hastings) Collin Wilcox "Involves you like (Dashiell) Hammett does." | The Big Fix (1974) (Moses Wine) Roger L Simon "Brilliant... a landmark in its field." | The Big Sleep / Farewell My Lovely (1995) Raymond Chandler "Chandler writes like a slumming angel and invests the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." |
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