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Ross Macdonald Biografía y Hechos

Ross Macdonald, seudónimo de Kenneth Millar (Los Gatos, California, 13 de diciembre de 1915 - Santa Bárbara, California, 11 de julio de 1983), fue un escritor estadounidense-canadiense de novela negra, célebre por haber creado el personaje del detective privado Lew Archer. Biografía Kenneth Millar estudió en Kitchener, Ontario, Canadá. En el liceo conoció a la también escritora Margaret Sturm, con la que casó en 1938. Tuvieron una hija, Linda, fallecida en 1970. Comenzó su carrera literaria en revistas pulp mientras estudiaba en la Universidad de Míchigan; su primera novela fue The Dark Tunnel, 1944. Escribía entonces con el pseudónimo de John Macdonald, para evitar toda confusión con su mujer, que escribía con éxito bajo el nombre de Margaret Millar. Así su nombre se transformó en John Ross Macdonald y posteriormente ya en el de Ross Macdonald, a causa de lo homonimia con John D. MacDonald. De 1944 a 1946 fue oficial de transmisiones de un navío, y luego retornó a la universidad, donde se doctoró en 1951. Pero dedicará su vida a narrar. Durante los años cincuenta Ross volvió a California y pasó sus últimos años en Santa Bárbara, lugar donde la mayoría de sus libros están ambientados bajo el nombre apenas disimulado de Santa Teresa. El escritor Sus primeros libros son irregulares, pero destacan por el uso de la metáfora y por su similitud entre ellos, que los separa de una masa de literatura policial masiva; y de la primera época destaca Blue city, de 1947.[1]​ El detective Lew Archer hizo su primera aparición en 1946 en la novela Find the Woman; y reapareció Archer en The Moving Target, en 1949. Esta novela, primera de una serie de ocho, formó el argumento principal del filme de Paul Newman Harper, investigador privado (1966). Lew Archer deriva su nombre del compañero de Sam Spade Miles Archer y de Lew Wallace, el novelista autor de Ben Hur. Las novelas de Lew Archer de más éxito son The Goodbye Look, The Underground Man y Sleeping Beauty, y concluyen con The Blue Hammer en 1976. Balance Macdonald fue el primer heredero del legado literario de Dashiell Hammett y Raymond Chandler como escritores de novela negra. Al estilo de sus predecesores añade algo de densidad psicológica y mayor diseño de los caracteres. Además, las tramas de Macdonald son más complejas y rondan siempre sobre lamentables secretos de familia; los hijos pródigos son tema recurrente. Inspirado por Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Macdonald escribió para los fanáticos del género y también para los críticos literarios. William Goldman llamó a sus novelas "la mejor serie de novelas detectivescas escrita por un autor americano". Obra Novelas con Lew Archer The Moving Target - 1949. Tr.: El blanco móvil / El blanco en movimiento (adaptada al cine como Harper (Harper, investigador privado), en 1966) The Drowning Pool - 1950. Tr.: La piscina de los ahogados / La piscina mortal (adaptada al cine como The Drowning Pool (Con el agua al cuello), en 1975) The Way Some People Die - 1951. Tr.: La forma en que algunos mueren The Ivory Grin (aka Marked for Murder) - 1952 - La mueca de marfil / La sonrisa de marfil Find a Victim - 1954. Tr.: En busca de una víctima The Barbarous Coast - 1956. Tr.: Costa Bárbara The Doomsters - 1958. Tr.: Los maléficos The Galton Case - 1959. Tr.: El caso Galton The Wycherly Woman - 1961. Tr.: La Wicherly The Zebra-Striped Hearse 1962. Tr.: El coche fúnebre a rayas The Chill - 1964. Tr.: El escalofrío The Far Side of the Dollar - 1965. Tr.: El otro lado del dólar Black Money - 1966. Tr.: Dinero negro The Instant Enemy - 1968. Tr.: El enemigo insólito The Goodbye Look - 1969. Tr.: La mirada del adiós The Underground Man - 1971. Tr.: El hombre enterrado Sleeping Beauty - 1973. Tr.: La bella durmiente The Blue Hammer - 1976. Tr.: El martillo azul Relatos donde figura Lew Archer The Name is Archer (contiene 7 relatos) 1955 Lew Archer: Private Investigator (contiene The Name is Archer y otras dos novelas) - 1977 The Archer Files 2007. Es una recopilación de todos los relatos en donde figura Lew Archer además de recoger una serie de obras inconclusas. . Tr.: El expediente Archer, Editorial roja&negra, Random House Mondadori, en 2010, versión de Ignacio Gómez Calvo. ISBN 978-84-397-2220-5. Se relacionan los relatos a continuación: En busca de la mujer Muerte en el agua La mujer barbuda Extraños en la ciudad Chica desaparecida La siniestra costumbre El suicidio Rubia culpable Empresa inútil El hombre enfadado Azul medianoche Perro dormido Compilaciones del personaje de Lew Archer Archer in Hollywood - 1967 Archer at Large - 1970 Archer in Jeopardy - 1979 La mirada del adiós, novela de la serie de Lew Archer, editada el 2009 por RBA El martillo azul, también de la serie de Lew Archer, editada por RBA en 2008. Otros Bajo el nombre de Kenneth Millar The Dark Tunnel (aka I Die Slowly) - 1944 Trouble Follows Me (aka Night Train) - 1946 Blue City - 1947 The Three Roads - 1948 Bajo el nombre de Ross Macdonald Meet Me at the Morgue (aka Experience With Evil) - 1953, trad. de Te espero en la morgue The Fergusson Affair - 1960. Tr.: El caso Fergusson Notas Referencias Matthew J. Bruccoli, Ross Macdonald, San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. Tom Nolan, Ross Macdonald: A Biography, Nueva York: Scribner, 1999. Enlaces externos Marling, William. Hard-Boiled Fiction. Case Western Reserve University The Ross Macdonald files Todo Lew Archer en español. Descubre los libros populares de Ross Macdonald. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Ross Macdonald

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  • Johnnie sinopsis y comentarios

    Johnnie

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Private First Class Johnnie Brown is on a break in New York, with just two days to spend however he likes before shipping out to fight the Nazis. All he wants to do is ride the sub...

  • Skinflick sinopsis y comentarios

    Skinflick

    Joseph Hansen

    'After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The TimesDave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the bus...

  • The Noise of Time sinopsis y comentarios

    The Noise of Time

    Julian Barnes

    'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE' OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away...

  • Strawberry Sunday sinopsis y comentarios

    Strawberry Sunday

    Stephen Greenleaf

    Recuperating in hospital from a nearfatal gunshot wound, P.I. John Marshall Tanner meets Rita Lombardi, a fellow patient recovering from lifechanging surgery. Struggling with a dee...

  • Baltimore's Mansion sinopsis y comentarios

    Baltimore's Mansion

    Wayne Johnston

    I am foreborn of spud runts who fled the famines of Ireland in the 1830s, not a man or woman among them more than five foot two, leaving behind a life of beggarment and setting sai...

  • A Rage in Harlem sinopsis y comentarios

    A Rage in Harlem

    Chester Himes

    'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesJackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money a technique for turning ten dollar bil...

  • Ross MacDonald sinopsis y comentarios

    Ross MacDonald

    Tom Nolan

    When he died in 1983, Ross Macdonald was the bestknown and most highly regarded crimefiction writer in America. Long considered the rightful successor to the mantles of Dashiell Ha...

  • The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of sinopsis y comentarios

    The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of

    Joseph Hansen

    'After forty years Hammett has a worthy successor' The TimesDave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlow Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the busine...

  • Blue City sinopsis y comentarios

    Blue City

    Ross MacDonald

    He was a son who hadn’t known his father very well.  It was a town shaken by a grisly murderhis father’s murder.  Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering. ...

  • The Bearded Lady sinopsis y comentarios

    The Bearded Lady

    Ross MacDonald

    In this short story from Ross Macdonald’s The Archer Files, detective Lew Archer stops in town to look in on an old army buddy, an artist, only to find that he has mysteriously dis...

  • A Country of Old Men sinopsis y comentarios

    A Country of Old Men

    Joseph Hansen

    'After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The TimesDave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the bus...

  • The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning sinopsis y comentarios

    The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning

    Joseph Hansen

    'After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The TimesDave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the bus...

  • Flesh Wounds sinopsis y comentarios

    Flesh Wounds

    Stephen Greenleaf

    Peggy Nettleton was P.I. John Marshall Tanner's loyal secretary for over eight years, so when she calls from her new home in Seattle asking for help, he can't say no.About to marry...

  • Beyond Blame sinopsis y comentarios

    Beyond Blame

    Stephen Greenleaf

    When psychologist Dianne Renzel is found brutally murdered in her own bed, suspicion immediately falls on her husband, law professor Lawrence Usser. An expert in temporary insanity...

  • ROSS MACDONALD Collection 7 Books set:Black Money, The Instant Enemy, The Goodbye Look, The Underground Man, Sleeping Beauty, The Blue Hammer, The Archer Files. sinopsis y comentarios

    ROSS MACDONALD Collection 7 Books set:Black Money, The Instant Enemy, The Goodbye Look, The Underground Man, Sleeping Beauty, The Blue Hammer, The Archer Files.

    Ross MacDonald

    ROSS MACDONALD Collection 7 Books set:Black Money, The Instant Enemy, The Goodbye Look, The Underground Man, Sleeping Beauty, The Blue Hammer, The Archer Files.

  • Meet Me at the Morgue sinopsis y comentarios

    Meet Me at the Morgue

    Ross MacDonald

    Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an exwar hero who has taken a tough manslaughter ra...

  • Nightwork sinopsis y comentarios

    Nightwork

    Joseph Hansen

    'After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The TimesDave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlow, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the busi...

  • Southern Cross sinopsis y comentarios

    Southern Cross

    Stephen Greenleaf

    An intriguing request from a friend at his twentyfifth college reunion takes P.I. John Marshall Tanner to Charleston, South Carolina.Seth Hartman fought for civil rights in the six...

  • ROSS MACDONALD Complete 4 Books: The Moving Target, The Drowning Pool, The Way Some People Die, The Ivory Grin sinopsis y comentarios

    ROSS MACDONALD Complete 4 Books: The Moving Target, The Drowning Pool, The Way Some People Die, The Ivory Grin

    Ross MacDonald

    Contains: The Moving Target   The Drowning Pool   The Way Some People Die   The Ivory Grin

  • The Big Gold Dream sinopsis y comentarios

    The Big Gold Dream

    Chester Himes

    Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the charismatic con man Sweet Prophet. Her partner rushes home to avoid the cops, only to find her apartment looted by so...

  • Smoke over Malibu sinopsis y comentarios

    Smoke over Malibu

    Tim Walker

    The Hon. Lucius Kluge – honourable, lucky, clever – might be the only guy in Los Angeles who's still living in the past.Lucky pines for the old days of the New Hollywood, before St...

  • Blood Type sinopsis y comentarios

    Blood Type

    Stephen Greenleaf

    Tom Crandall war hero, social crusader and P.I. John Marshall Tanner's close friend is discovered dead in an alley in San Francisco's sleazy Tenderloin district. The police call...

  • Black Money sinopsis y comentarios

    Black Money

    Ross MacDonald

    When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Thing...

  • The Night of the Hunter sinopsis y comentarios

    The Night of the Hunter

    Davis Grubb

    'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouthwatering prospect' Daily TelegraphTwo young children hold the key to a secret stash of money and a relen...

  • The Cross-Eyed Bear Murders sinopsis y comentarios

    The Cross-Eyed Bear Murders

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Alone in New York City, Lizanne Steffasson comes face to face with reality when her dream of acting on Broadway collapses.Now she just needs to pay her rent. So she answers an unus...

  • Black Ice sinopsis y comentarios

    Black Ice

    Matt Dickinson

    'A ripping good adventure yarn with a thoroughly admirable heroine, a suitably blackhearted villain and such vivid descriptions of the sheer agony and awfulness of Antarctica you'l...

  • The Crazy Kill sinopsis y comentarios

    The Crazy Kill

    Chester Himes

    Big Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opiumaddicted Reverend Short falls out of a window trying to see a thief fleeing the robbed store opposite, his life ...

  • The Wycherly Woman sinopsis y comentarios

    The Wycherly Woman

    Ross MacDonald

    Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughlyor fo...

  • The Zebra-Striped Hearse sinopsis y comentarios

    The Zebra-Striped Hearse

    Ross MacDonald

    One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsStrictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soontobe soninlaw...

  • The Delicate Ape sinopsis y comentarios

    The Delicate Ape

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Diplomatic corps man Piers Hunt watches the glittering lights of Broadway from his Hotel Astor room. The German girl's mocking voice returns to his mind yet again: 'More melodrama,...

  • Blind Man with a Pistol sinopsis y comentarios

    Blind Man with a Pistol

    Chester Himes

    Bawdy and toughtalking, wickedly funny and wantonly sensual, Blind Man With a Pistol is a surreal joyride through Harlem in a heatwave. Detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed ...

  • The Blue Hammer sinopsis y comentarios

    The Blue Hammer

    Ross MacDonald

    The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.Finding a purloined portrait...

  • Widespread Panic sinopsis y comentarios

    Widespread Panic

    James Ellroy

    Freddy is an exL.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp and, most notably, ...

  • Early Graves sinopsis y comentarios

    Early Graves

    Joseph Hansen

    'After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The TimesDave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the bus...

  • Fadeout sinopsis y comentarios

    Fadeout

    Joseph Hansen

    After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The TimesDave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the busi...

  • The Ross Macdonald Collection: 18 Classic Lew Archer Novels sinopsis y comentarios

    The Ross Macdonald Collection: 18 Classic Lew Archer Novels

    Ross MacDonald

    Ross Macdonald transformed the detective novel into a literary expression of unique psychological depth and drama.  Contains: BOOKS 1 The Moving Target BOOKS 2 The...

  • Death Claims sinopsis y comentarios

    Death Claims

    Joseph Hansen

    After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The TimesDave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the busi...

  • State's Evidence sinopsis y comentarios

    State's Evidence

    Stephen Greenleaf

    San Francisco P.I. John Marshall Tanner is called in to help a crusading district attorney locate the only reliable witness to a moborchestrated hitandrun killing. But is exmodel T...

  • The Three Roads sinopsis y comentarios

    The Three Roads

    Ross MacDonald

    Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at himthat’s how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine.  He was drunk when he married her, stone cold s...

  • The Moving Target sinopsis y comentarios

    The Moving Target

    Ross MacDonald

    The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological ...

  • Find a Victim sinopsis y comentarios

    Find a Victim

    Ross MacDonald

    Las Cruces wasn’t a place most travelers would think to stop. But after private investigator Lew Archer plays the good samaritan and picks up a bloodied hitchhiker, he finds himse...

  • The Archer Files sinopsis y comentarios

    The Archer Files

    Ross MacDonald & Tom Nolan

    No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes ona burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared personthe trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the...

  • ROSS MACDONALD Collection 8 Books set: Find a Victim, The Barbarous Coast, The Doomsters, The Galton Case, The Wycherly Woman, The Zebra-Striped Hearse, The Chill, The Far Side of the Dollar. sinopsis y comentarios

    ROSS MACDONALD Collection 8 Books set: Find a Victim, The Barbarous Coast, The Doomsters, The Galton Case, The Wycherly Woman, The Zebra-Striped Hearse, The Chill, The Far Side of the Dollar.

    Ross MacDonald

    ROSS MACDONALD Collection 8 Books set:  Find a Victim. The Barbarous Coast. The Doomsters. The Galton Case. The Wycherly Woman. The ZebraStriped Hearse. The Chill. The Far Sid...

  • The Far Side of the Dollar sinopsis y comentarios

    The Far Side of the Dollar

    Ross MacDonald

    In The Far Side of the Dollar, private investigator Lew Archer is looking for an unstable rich kid who has run away from an exclusive reform schooland into the arms of kidnappers. ...

  • All Shot Up sinopsis y comentarios

    All Shot Up

    Chester Himes

    'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hitandrun victim's been hit...

  • The Ivory Grin sinopsis y comentarios

    The Ivory Grin

    Ross MacDonald

    Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever.A hardfaced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dr...

  • The Ross Macdonald Collection sinopsis y comentarios

    The Ross Macdonald Collection

    Ross MacDonald

    Ross Macdonald transformed the detective novel into a literary expression of unique psychological depth and drama. Contains: Four Novels of the 1950s (Library of America volume #26...

  • Obedience sinopsis y comentarios

    Obedience

    Joseph Hansen

    'After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The TimesDave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the bus...

  • Sleeping Beauty sinopsis y comentarios

    Sleeping Beauty

    Ross MacDonald

    In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their handsincluding an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose o...

  • The Way Some People Die sinopsis y comentarios

    The Way Some People Die

    Ross MacDonald

    In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘cra...