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Review“My favorite . . . [Macdonald] is first among those novelists who raised the genre from its roots in pulp fiction to serious literature.” —P.D. James, from Talking About Detective Fiction “[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.” —_New York Times Book Review_ “Macdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction. He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” —_Los Angeles Times_ “Most mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” —_The Atlantic_ “Without in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them.” —Anthony Boucher “[Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries.” —_The Guardian_ (London) “[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” —_Chicago Tribune_Product DescriptionIt was a long way from

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Author
Macdonald, Ross
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307740786
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, True Crime, Literary Fiction
Rating
3.8 / 5 (177 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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