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Ross Macdonald

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Born
1915

Died
1983

Publications
Novels

Writing languages
English

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Literature

The Galton Case (1959)

Novels

The Galton Case (1959)

American Literature

The Galton Case (1959)

Crime and Mystery

The Galton Case (1959)

The Blue Hammer (1976)

First appearance of works in book form

1944

The Dark Tunnel Novel

1946

Trouble Follows Me Novel, , also known as Night Train

1947

Blue City Novel

1948

The Three Roads Novel

1949

The Moving Target Novel

1950

The Drowning Pool Novel

1951

The Way Some People Die Novel

1944

The Dark Tunnel Novel

1952

The Ivory Grin Novel, , also known as Marked for Murder

1953

Meet Me at the Morgue Novel, , also known as Experience with Evil

1954

Find a Victim Novel

1955

The Name Is Archer Seven stories

First book appearance of "Find the Woman", "The Bearded Lady", "Gone Girl", "The Sister Habit", "The Suicide!", "Guilt-Edged Blonde", "Wild Goose Chase"

1956

The Barbarous Coast Novel

1958

The Doomsters Novel

1959

The Galton Case Novel

1960

The Ferguson Affair Novel

1961

The Wycherly Woman Novel

1962

The Zebra-Striped Hearse Novel

1964

The Chill Novel

1965

The Far Side of the Dollar Novel

1966

Black Money Novel

1968

The Instant Enemy Novel

1969

The Goodbye Look Novel

1971

The Underground Man Novel

1973

Sleeping Beauty Novel

On Crime Writing Nonfiction

1976

The Blue Hammer Novel

1977

Lew Archer: Private Investigator Nine stories

1981

Self-Portrait, Ceaselessly Into the Past Prefaces, articles and interviews

First book appearance of "Midnight Blue", "Sleeping Dog"

2001

Strangers in Town Story drafts, ed. Tom Nolan

2007

The Archer Files, The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer Private Investigator, Including Newly Discovered Case Notes Stories, ed. Tom Nolan

 

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