Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) was the author of eighteen books that a New York Times critic called the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American : the Lew Archer canon, which included such breakthrough best-sellers as and “The Underground Man, and ” and “The Goodbye Look, and ” and and “The Blue Hammer. and ” Macdonald (born Kenneth Millar) also wrote several novelettes and short-stories involving Southern California private-detective Lew Archer. and “The Archer Files and ” for the first time collects all the brief Archer fiction: the stories from Macdonald s 1955 paperback-original and “The Name Is Archer, and ” the additional tales included in the Otto Penzler-edited 1977 volume and “Lew Archer: Private Investigator, and ” and the three then-unknown novellas presented in Crippen and u0026 Landru s 2001 book and “Strangers in Town. and ” Also included in and “The Archer Files and ” are several lengthy, never-before-published fragments of unfinished Macdonald stories: case notes, as it were, from the files of Lew Archer. Edited by Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan, and “The Archer Files and ” is prefaced with Nolan s biographical sketch of Lew Archer himself — the character Eudora Welty described as and “a champion and ” and and “a distinguished creation … As a detective and as a man he takes the human situation with full seriousness. and ” Jeff Wong s cover is adapted from the 1955 paperback original, but depicting Ross Macdonald rather than Lew Archer.

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