Dreamers Who Live Their Dreams: World of Ross Macdonald's Novels by Peter Wolfe
A critical review of the novels, heroes, and writing style of Ross Macdonald. ... read more

Black Money by Ross Macdonald
"A beautiful job...rich in plot and character.... The denouement is both surprising and shocking and the whole is up to Mr. Macdonald's extraordinarily high standards." -- The New York Times book Review

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspi ... read more

Hard Boiled

The Chill by Ross Macdonald
"An entertainment of almost Byzantine complexity in which practically nothing is as the facts would seem..." -- The New Yorker

In The Chill, a distraught young man hires Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid th ... read more

The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald
"A model of intelligently engineered excitement." -- The New Yorker

Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him bac ... read more

The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder--and a trail of motives ... read more