Friday, December 13, 2024

Born on this day – Ross Macdonald:


Ross Macdonald


Writer

December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983

Credits:

The Lew Archer novel series: The Moving Target (aka Harper) (1949); The Drowning Pool (1950); The Way Some People Die   (1951); The Ivory Grin (aka Marked for Murder) (1952); 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 (1963); 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 (1955); Lew Archer, Private Investigator (1977); The Archer Files (2007). The Chet Gordon novel series: The Dark Tunnel (aka I Die Slowly) (1944); Trouble Follows Me (1946). Stand-alone novels, short stories and novellas: Blue City (1947); The Three Roads (1948); Meet Me at the Morgue (aka Experience with Evil) (1954); The Ferguson Affair (1967); The Guilty Ones (1952); The Imaginary Blonde (1953); Midnight Blue (2010); Strangers in Town (2001); Dear Dead Days: 1972 Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1972); Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels (1986); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); Writing Los Angeles (2002); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); Books to Die For (2012).

Movies and television:

Archer (1975); Blue City (1986); City Detective (1954); Crime Writers (1978); Criminal Behavior (1992); Double Negative (1980); Harper (1966); Harper Days Are Here Again (1975); Le loup de la côte Ouest (2002); Pursuit (1958); Tayna (1992); The Drowning Pool (1975); The Underground Man (1974).

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