Ross Macdonald Libros Populares
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
Dorothy B. HughesPrivate 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...
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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...
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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...
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Strawberry Sunday
Stephen GreenleafRecuperating 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...
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Baltimore's Mansion
Wayne JohnstonI 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...
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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...
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Ross MacDonald
Tom NolanWhen 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...
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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...
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Blue City
Ross MacDonaldHe 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. ...
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The Bearded Lady
Ross MacDonaldIn 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...
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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...
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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...
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Flesh Wounds
Stephen GreenleafPeggy 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...
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Beyond Blame
Stephen GreenleafWhen 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...
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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 MacDonaldROSS MACDONALD Collection 7 Books set:Black Money, The Instant Enemy, The Goodbye Look, The Underground Man, Sleeping Beauty, The Blue Hammer, The Archer Files.
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Meet Me at the Morgue
Ross MacDonaldSomebody 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...
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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...
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Southern Cross
Stephen GreenleafAn 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...
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ROSS MACDONALD Complete 4 Books: The Moving Target, The Drowning Pool, The Way Some People Die, The Ivory Grin
Ross MacDonaldContains: The Moving Target The Drowning Pool The Way Some People Die The Ivory Grin
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The Big Gold Dream
Chester HimesAlberta 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...
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Smoke over Malibu
Tim WalkerThe 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...
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Blood Type
Stephen GreenleafTom 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...
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Black Money
Ross MacDonaldWhen 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...
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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...
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The Cross-Eyed Bear Murders
Dorothy B. HughesAlone 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...
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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...
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The Crazy Kill
Chester HimesBig 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 ...
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The Wycherly Woman
Ross MacDonaldPhoebe 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...
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The Zebra-Striped Hearse
Ross MacDonaldOne 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...
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The Delicate Ape
Dorothy B. HughesDiplomatic 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,...
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Blind Man with a Pistol
Chester HimesBawdy 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 ...
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The Blue Hammer
Ross MacDonaldThe 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...
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Widespread Panic
James EllroyFreddy 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, ...
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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...
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Fadeout
Joseph HansenAfter 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...
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The Ross Macdonald Collection: 18 Classic Lew Archer Novels
Ross MacDonaldRoss Macdonald transformed the detective novel into a literary expression of unique psychological depth and drama. Contains: BOOKS 1 The Moving Target BOOKS 2 The...
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Death Claims
Joseph HansenAfter 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...
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State's Evidence
Stephen GreenleafSan 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...
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The Three Roads
Ross MacDonaldSilken 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...
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The Moving Target
Ross MacDonaldThe 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 ...
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Find a Victim
Ross MacDonaldLas 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...
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The Archer Files
Ross MacDonald & Tom NolanNo 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...
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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 MacDonaldROSS 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...
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The Far Side of the Dollar
Ross MacDonaldIn 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. ...
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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...
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The Ivory Grin
Ross MacDonaldTraveling 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...
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The Ross Macdonald Collection
Ross MacDonaldRoss 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...
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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...
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Sleeping Beauty
Ross MacDonaldIn 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...
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The Way Some People Die
Ross MacDonaldIn 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...