Ross Macdonald Lot 23 Paperbacks Complete Lew Archer Mystery Series + 4 others

Description: All 18 Lew Archer Mystery Novels + one Archer story collection + 4 other Mysteries by Ross Macdonald Here are all 18 novels in the classic mystery series featuring private eye Lew Archer. Also included is the story collection, The Name is Archer and four other mystery novels. Included (with dates of first publication): Lew Archer series: The Moving Target (1949) The Drowning Pool (1950) The Way Some People Die (1951) The Ivory Grin (1951) Find a Victim (1954) The Barbarous Coast (1956) The Doomsters (1958) The Galton Case (1959) The Wycherly Woman (1961) The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962) The Chill (1964) The Far Side of the Dollar (1965) Black Money (1966) The Instant Enemy (1968) The Goodbye Look (1969) The Underground Man (1971) Sleeping Beauty (1973) The Blue Hammer (1976) The Name is Archer [Short Stories] (1955) Non-series: Blue City (1947) The Three Roads (1948) Meet Me at the Morgue (1953) The Ferguson Affair (1960) All are used mass market paperbacks in good condition. All but five are from the Warner Books 1990 to 1993 edition featuring covers by Gary Kelley. Spines are creased on most books. Covers on most books have a corner fold or creases. A few books have a store stamp or owner's name or marks inside the front. Several have a year of publication written on the bottom edge (photo 4). There are no marks in the text and few page corner folds. Almost all books have light page tanning. There are no spine cracks and no water damage. About the books: ============================================================================================================================= This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Ross MacDonald". Ross Macdonald is the main pseudonym that was used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983). He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. The Lew Archer novels are widely recognized as some of the most significant American mystery books of the mid-20th Century, bringing unprecedented levels of psychological insight and literary sophistication to the genre. John Leonard, longtime critic for The New York Times Book Review, declared that Macdonald had surpassed the limits of crime fiction to become "a major American novelist" Work Macdonald first introduced the tough but humane private eye Lew Archer in the 1946 short story "Find the Woman" (credited to "Ken Millar"; he would subsequently use variations of "John Ross Macdonald" on all his writing.) A full-length novel, The Moving Target, followed in 1949. This novel (the first in a series of eighteen) would become the basis for the 1966 Paul Newman film Harper. Macdonald mentions in the foreword to the Archer in Hollywood omnibus that his detective derives his name from Sam Spade's partner, Miles Archer, and from Lew(is) Wallace, author of Ben-Hur, though he was patterned on Philip Marlowe. Macdonald has been called the primary heir to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as the master of American hardboiled mysteries. His writing built on the pithy style of his predecessors by adding psychological depth and insights into the motivations of his characters. Author Tom Rizzo has pointed out that Macdonald's plots were complicated, and often turned on Archer's unearthing family secrets of his clients and of the criminals who victimized them. Lost or wayward sons and daughters were a theme common to many of the novels. Critics have commented favorably on Macdonald's deft combination of the two sides of the mystery genre, the "whodunit" and the psychological thriller. Even his regular readers seldom saw a Macdonald denouement coming. Inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Macdonald's writing was hailed by genre fans and literary critics alike. Eudora Welty, a longtime friend and possible lover, was a loyal fan of his work. Screenwriter William Goldman, who adapted Macdonald's stories to film, called his works "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American". Tom Nolan in his Ross Macdonald, A Biography, wrote, "By any standard he was remarkable. His first books, patterned on Hammett and Chandler, were at once vivid chronicles of a postwar California and elaborate retellings of Greek and other classic myths. Gradually he swapped the hard-boiled trappings for more subjective themes: personal identity, the family secret, the family scapegoat, the childhood trauma; how men and women need and battle each other, how the buried past rises like a skeleton to confront the present. He brought the tragic drama of Freud and the psychology of Sophocles to detective stories, and his prose flashed with poetic imagery." ============================================================================================================================= Shipping to U.S. addresses will by Media Mail (upgrade to Priority Mail available upon request and payment of extra cost). 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