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"You can't get away from the past. It's built into one's life. You can't wall it off or evade it or undo it.
It's inescapably and inevitably there, like a deformed child in a secret room of one's house."
— Ross MacDonald (in "Meet Me At The Morgue" 1953)

Ross MacDonald books catalog at Amazon.com
Ross MacDonald credits at Internet Movie Database

Ross MacDonald entry at Wikipedia

WM's Ross MacDonald fansite
Tom Nolan article [Summer 2002]
KL's Ross MacDonald fansite
Ross MacDonald Tribute at January Magazine

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	"The Novels of Ross Macdonald" [2005] by Michael Kreyling Univ SC Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2005] for $34.95
	"Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald - A Literary Reference" [2002] Edited by Matthew Bruccoli & Richard Layman Carroll & Graf 10x7 pb [7/2002] for $15.40
	"A Ross Macdonald Companion" [2002] by Robert L. Gale Greenwood Press 9x6¼ hardcover [7/2002] for $83.95
	"Ross Macdonald: A Biography" [2001] by Tom Nolan Poisoned Pen Press 9¼x6¼ pb [1/2001] for $12.57

"Ross Macdonald's Inner Journey" [25 essays; 1984]
Edited by Ralph B. Sipper
Mysterious Press 8¼x5½ pb [3/87] out of print/used
Cordelia Editions of Santa Barbara hardcover [1984] out of print/used

"Ross Macdonald" [1984] by Matthew J. Bruccoli
Harcourt 9¼x7¼ pb [3/84] for $7.95
Harcourt hardcover [3/84] out of print/used

Lew  Archer  Mystery Series

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"The Moving Target" (aka 'Harper') [1949]

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"The Drowning Pool" [1950]

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"The Way Some People Die" [1951]

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"The Ivory Grin" (aka 'Marked for Murder') [1952]

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"Find A Victim" [1954]

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"The Name Is Archer" [1955]
paperback original containing 7 stories

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"The Barbarous Coast" [1956]

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"The Doomsters" [1958]

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"The Galton Case" [1959]

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"The Wycherly Woman" [1961]

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"The Zebra-Striped Hearse" [1962]

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"The Chill" [1964]

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"The Far Side of The Dollar" [1965]

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"Black Money" [1966]

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"Archer In Hollywood" [omnibus 1967]

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"The Instant Enemy" [1968]

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"The Goodbye Look" [1969 bestseller]

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"Archer At Large" [omnibus 1970]

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"The Underground Man" [1971 bestseller]

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"Sleeping Beauty" [1973 bestseller]

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"The Blue Hammer" [1976]

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"Lew Archer: Private Investigator" [1977]
'The Name is Archer' + 2 additional stories

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"Archer In Jeopardy" [omnibus 1979]

Other Books by Ross Macdonald

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"The Dark Tunnel" (aka 'I Die Slowly') as Kenneth Millar [1944]

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"Trouble Follows Me" (aka 'Night Train') as Kenneth Millar [1946]

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"Blue City" as Kenneth Millar [1947]

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"The Three Roads" as Kenneth Millar [1948]

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"Meet Me At The Morgue" (aka 'Experience With Evil') as Ross Macdonald [1953]

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"The Ferguson Affair" as Ross Macdonald [1960]

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"On Crime Writing" [1973] by Ross Macdonald
Capra Press chapbook [1973] out of print/used

Movies & TV
Ross MacDonald credits at Internet Movie Database
explore Ross Macdonald's videos/DVDs

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"Harper" [Warner Bros. Feb 1966]

Directed by Jack Smight; script by William Goldman, based on the novel "The Moving Target"; starring Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber, Shelley Winters, Harold Gould, Roy Jenson & Strother Martin; nominated for WGA Best Drama Script; full credits at IMDb

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"The Underground Man" TV movie [Paramount/N.B.C. May 1974]

Directed by Paul Wendkos; script by Douglas Heyes, based on Ross Macdonald's novel; starring Peter Graves, Celeste Holm, Sharon Farrell, Jim Hutton, Kay Lenz, Biff McGuire, Vera Miles, Jo Ann Pflug, Judith Anderson & Jack Klugman; video/DVD not available; full credits at IMDb

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"The Drowning Pool" [Warner/First Artists June 1975]

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg; based on Ross Macdonald's novel; starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith, Linda Haynes, Richard Jaeckel, Paul Koslo, Joe Canutt, Andrew Robinson, Coral Browne, Richard Derr, Helena Kallianiotes & Leigh French full credits at IMDb

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"Archer" [Paramount/N.B.C. 1975 6-episode TV series]
Starring Brian Keith & John P. Ryan; full credits at IMDb

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"Double Negative" [Quadrant 1980]

Directed by George Bloomfield; based on the novel "The Three Roads"; starring Michael Sarrazin, Susan Clark, Anthony Perkins, Howard Duff, Kate Reid, Al Waxman, Elizabeth Shepherd, Kenneth Welsh, John Candy, Maury Chaykin, Michael Ironside & Eugene Levy; full credits at IMDb

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"Blue City" [Paramount May 1986]

Directed by Michelle Manning; script by Lukas Heller & Walter Hill, based on Ross Macdonald's novel; starring Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, David Caruso, Paul Winfield, Scott Wilson, Anita Morris, Luis Contreras & Julie Carmen; full credits at IMDb

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"Criminal Behavior" TV movie [May 1992]

Directed by Michael Miller; script by Wendell Mayes, based on the novel "The Ferguson Affair"; starring Farrah Fawcett, A Martinez, Dakin Matthews, John Hancock, Cliff De Young, Angela Paton, Nada Despotovich & Andrew Robinson; video/DVD not available; full credits at IMDb

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