Trouble Follows Me

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Paperback
2013
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* The primary heir to the two masters of American hard-boiled mysteries: Macdonald is a member of the trinity of our greatest detective writers, which also includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. * The Dark Tunnel is back in print: The trade edition of Macdonald's first novel is back; it was last issued in mass market by Bantam in 1983.* New edition includes Bill Pronzini's introduction to the 1980 reissue: Pronzini, author of the Nameless Detective series and noted anthologist of over a hundred collections, provides a superb analysis of the book's importance in the genre.

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* The primary heir to the two masters of American hard-boiled mysteries: Macdonald is a member of the trinity of our greatest detective writers, which also includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. * The Dark Tunnel is back in print: The trade edition of Macdonald's first novel is back; it was last issued in mass market by Bantam in 1983.* New edition includes Bill Pronzini's introduction to the 1980 reissue: Pronzini, author of the Nameless Detective series and noted anthologist of over a hundred collections, provides a superb analysis of the book's importance in the genre.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 218
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Published: 14 Mar 2013
ISBN 10: 1453295577
ISBN 13: 9781453295571
Book Overview: Ross Macdonald's second novel of homefront espionage set during the last days of WWII is every bit as riveting and entertaining as the author's acclaimed Lew Archer series.

Media Reviews

Praise for the Author No once since Macdonald has written with such poetic inevitability about people, their secret cares, their emotional scars, their sadness, cowardice, and courage. He reminded the rest of us of what was possible in our genre. -John Lutz, author of Single White Female

The American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald. -The New York Times The greatest mystery writer of his age, I would argue, even greater than Chandler. -John Connolly, author of Every Dead Thing Praise for The Dark Tunnel Like all of Macdonald's work, The Dark Tunnel is a novel of insight, ambition, and social commentary disguised as pure entertainment. -Bill Pronzini, author of the Nameless Detective series
A thrilling story told with consummate skill. -The New York Times

Author Bio

Ross Macdonald was a pseudonym for Kenneth Millar (1915-1983), an author of detective fiction best known for creating the character of Lew Archer, a California PI. Born in California, Millar lived in Ontario, Canada, until his father abandoned his mother, uprooting the family and forcing them to move again and again over the next few years-a formative experience that would often be echoed in Millar's work. While attending the University of Michigan, Millar began writing pulp fiction, publishing his first novel, The Dark Tunnel, in 1944. Millar introduced Lew Archer, the tough-but-sensitive private detective, in the 1946 short story Find the Woman. The Moving Target (1949) was the first of more than a dozen Lew Archer novels, which established Millar as one of the finest crime novelists of his day. He is often included in the holy trinity of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.