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“Ross Macdonad’s PI was Lew Archer. What Ross Macdonald did in these books was dig into suburban America. You have all these suburban families that look normal, but when you dig down you uncover sin and secrets that people want to keep covered up. The Chill is probably his most chilling book. It’s just a book that I really enjoyed. The plot involves Archer being hired by a young man to find his missing wife who disappeared during their honeymoon, and that cascades into a series of murders, the first of which dates back twenty years.” Read more...
The Best 20th-century American Detective Novels
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