Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels: Black Money / The Instant Enemy / The Goodbye Look / The Underground Man

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A crucial inspiration for such writers as Sue Grafton and George Pelecanos, Ross Macdonald gives a culminating demonstration of his transformation of the detective novel into a literary expression of unique psychological depth and drama in this final volume of the Library of America's definitive edition of his works. From his vantage point in southern California - and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer - Macdonald cast a shadowy vision of modern America, drawing on both the turmoil of his private life and on the inequities, injustices, and simmering anxieties of the society around him for raw material.

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Tom Nolan, editor, is the author of the definitiveRoss Macdonald- A Biography (1999). In addition tothe three-volume Library of America edition ofMacdonald's fiction he has edited The Archer Files(2007) and (with Suzanne Marrs) Meanwhile ThereAre Letters- The Correspondence of Eudora Welty andRoss Macdonald (2015).