Kreyling, Michael,  1948- <br/><br/>
The novels of Ross Macdonald / 
Michael Kreyling. 
 - Columbia :  University of South Carolina Press,  c2005. 
 - x, 185 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index. 
<br/><br/>Constants -- An unhappy childhood is practically indispensable -- Literary fathers and Archer's debut : The moving target (1949) -- The rock and the hard place : Chandler and Hammett -- Freud and Archer : the detective as analyst -- I wish they all could be California girls : Archer in the 1960s -- Love and ruin : The underground man, Sleeping beauty, The blue hammer -- The genre after Macdonald. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1570035776 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004027811 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Macdonald, Ross, 1915- --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.<br/>Noir fiction, American--History and criticism.<br/>Private investigators in literature.<br/>Archer, Lew (Fictitious character)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>California--In literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3525.I486  / Z75 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.52