TY - BOOK AU - Kreyling,Michael TI - The novels of Ross Macdonald SN - 1570035776 (alk. paper) AV - PS3525.I486 Z75 2005 U1 - 813/.52 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Columbia PB - University of South Carolina Press KW - Macdonald, Ross, KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - History and criticism KW - Noir fiction, American KW - Private investigators in literature KW - Archer, Lew (Fictitious character) KW - California KW - In literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027811.html ER -