The Ross Macdonald Collection: A Library of America Boxed Set

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Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafton, George Pelecanos, and James Ellroy, praised by Eudora Welty as 'a more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were,' Ross Macdonald (the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar) brought to the crime novel a new realism and psychological depth and a unique gift for intricately involving mystery narratives. Now, the Library of America presents its three-volume Macdonald edition in a deluxe collector's edition boxed set featuring eleven classic novels.

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The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American. --The New York Times Book Review

Macdonald brought a new method of psychological construction to the hard-boiled novel he was in line with many of the important mid-century movements of American literary fiction, and deserves to be seen as a worthy addition to them. The Times Literary Supplement

Author Bio

Ross Macdonald was the principal pen name of Canadian-American writerKenneth Millar (1915-1983). Tom Nolan, editor, is the author of the definitive Ross 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).