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(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.
Genres: Mystery
Series
Chet Gordon (as by 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)
Archer in Jeopardy (omnibus) (1979)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume One (omnibus) (1993)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume Two (omnibus) (1994)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume Three (omnibus) (1997)
The Ross Macdonald Collection (omnibus) (2017)
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)
Archer in Jeopardy (omnibus) (1979)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume One (omnibus) (1993)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume Two (omnibus) (1994)
The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume Three (omnibus) (1997)
The Ross Macdonald Collection (omnibus) (2017)
Novels
Blue City (1947) (as by Kenneth Millar)
The Three Roads (1948) (as by Kenneth Millar)
Meet Me at the Morgue (1954)
aka Experience With Evil
The Ferguson Affair (1960)
The Three Roads (1948) (as by Kenneth Millar)
Meet Me at the Morgue (1954)
aka Experience With Evil
The Ferguson Affair (1960)
Omnibus
Collections
Anthologies containing stories by Ross MacDonald
Short stories
| Gone Girl | |||
| Midnight Blue (1960) |
Books about Ross MacDonald
Ross MacDonald recommends
The Big Sleep / Farewell My Lovely (1995)
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