![]() ![]() “Beset by dirty cops, a bumptious boxer turned silver screen pretty boy, and a Hollywood mogul with a dark past, Archer discovers the secret of a grisly murder that just won’t stay hidden.”. all of the blackstone audio recordings of Ross Macdonalds novels are the standard by which detective literature is to be judged." that being said- the depth of feeling millar puts on the page is doubled by the sublime acting of Grover Gardener, (as Tom Parker) Mr Gardener is by far one of the masters who Feels the story. the novels are before the assembly-line serial forms of the present day and although they utilize set geographies and social strata, the identification one enjoys with archer is uplifting without pontification. his protagonist is not omnipotent nor unstirred by the human suffering he is employed by. kenneth millar's archer is, in a sense the story of the post-war american male life. "for the person of a certain time/culture the novel contains, as with old movies-two narratives the story, and the context of the creation of the story. Archer’s investigation leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract, a big-time gambler who died by his own knife, and finally, to an answer he would rather not have known. In The Barbarous Coast, tough, thoughtful private eye Lew Archer pursues a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living. Ross Macdonald is one of the “Big Three” in American hard-boiled detective fiction, along with Chandler and Hammett. ![]()
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