Ross Macdonald was probably last of the classic hardboiled crime writers together with Hammett and Chandler. All of his novels are same and are revolving around search for some girl who escaped somewhere. That is very interesting if you know that his own daughter suffered through tragic incident.
Protagonist of his novels Lew Archer is good man, somewhat depressed but with a touch of brutality that helps him to solve mysteries.
This novel is good entrance into the world of weird Lew Archer.
Ross Macdonald had wife who was also crime fiction writer and her novels are good, but not so much as his.
Recently lousy serbian book publisher published one of MacDonald's novels. Little too late, but whatever.
No comments:
Post a Comment