Talk:Ross Macdonald
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Heir to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as the master of American "hard boiled" mysteries, Macdonald's writing built on the pithy style of his predecessors by adding psychological depth and insights into the motivations of his characters. He fashioned descriptive metaphors, so aligned with their subjects ... sadness, horror, a place in time, a rise in the road ... that his works have an atmosphere of language that likely will last. Macdonald's plots were complicated, and often turned on Archer's unearthing family secrets of his clients and of the criminals who victimized them. Even his regular readers seldom saw a Macdonald denouement coming.
I don't like this at all and plan to rewrite it when toime allows - it's very POV Paul Tracy 15:48, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
For an excellent analysis of Macdonald's writing, and of F.Scott Fitzgerald's influenced on both Macdonald and Hammett: See: "Mystery Writers: Hammett and Macdonld," http://www.mysterywriters.blogspot.com/
[edit] Problem with Links
Unfortunately, The Chill and The Underground Man link to things that have nothing to do with the Ross Macdonald novels of the same name. I fixed these by removing the links. Perhaps a better fix would be to create pages for these books but right now I don't have the time.ubiquity 15:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
The whole thing about the Canadian rancher and where he went to college probably needs to be deleted. MrSmith85 07:08, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
