If you’re a Ross Macdonald fan, IT’S ALL ONE CASE: THE ILLUSTRATED ROSS MACDONALD ARCHIVES is a must-buy. Paul Nelson and Kevin Avery and Jeff Wong assembled a detailed survey of Ross Macdonald’s work with photos, book jackets, interviews, and analysis. This is the complete package! Everything you ever wanted to know about Ross Macdonald and his works is here! Jerome Charyn’s incisive “Foreword” puts Ross Macdonald into perspective. You will not find a better tribute to this great writer. IT’S ALL ONE CASE: THE ILLUSTRATED ROSS MACDONALD ARCHIVES should be in every mystery reader’s library! GRADE: A+
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Foreword by Jerome Charyn
Introduction
Ross Macdonald Bibiliography
1. Beginnings
2. First Works
3. Jazz
4. A Bookshelf Full of Influences
5. Detective Fiction
6. A Shadow Portrait
7. Hammett
8. Chandler
9. Fitzgerald
10. First Person
11. Mythologizing
12. Romanticism
13. Disturbances
14. Students and Teachers
15. The Books
16. Characters
17. Short Works
18. Writing
19. Variations on a Theme
20 Truth in Fiction
21 Critics and Criticism
22. The Instant Enemy
23. Hollywood
24. The Doomsters
25. The Blue Hammer
26. Painters and Other Artists
27. Cause and Effect
28. Popular Culture
29. California
30. Beyond Archer
Acknowledgements
Sources and Cited Works
Index
About the Authors
Saw this at B&N. . I’m a big MacDonald fan. I will have to check this out.
Steve, IT’S ALL ONE CASE is the Best Book of 2016 in my estimation!
I love Macdonald’s books – this looks amazing. Thanks George.
Sergio, IT’S ALL ONE CASE is amazing! You will love it!
This is already on my Christmas list.
Bill, you will love IT’S ALL ONE CASE! A great Christmas present!
Cool. Don’t know this but it is going on my list. I still have a handful of Macdonald’s books waiting to be read.
Jeff, I’ve read all of Ross Macdonald’s books. IT’S ALL ONE CASE is terrific!
OK, my library has a few copies, so I put it on hold.
Jeff, you might want to own a copy of IT’S ALL ONE CASE. It’s that good!
I’m sure I will once I read it.
Jeff, maybe you can score a sale copy during CYBER MONDAY!
Like Jeff, I have a handful of Macdonald’s books waiting to be read.
Rick, I’ve read all of Macdonald’s books. I’m fond of the books published in the 1950s.
I’m sure I read some of MacDonald’s novels when I was younger – but I just can’t remember …
Only some of the Mickey Spillane stuff stayed in my memory because it was so outrageous (for a German …).
A bit OT:
An “uncle” of mine would read one paperback novel every evening (mostly detective/thrillers) and then put the books away – so every few months I went to his house when I visited Munich and took those books home. For me books were too expensive to buy and the town library had only a very limited selection of boring stuff – until every two weeks or so they got new books from the “America House”, often SF – lucky me!
Wolf, the Ross Macdonald detective novels hold up well decades after being written. I’m a big fan of THE INSTANT ENEMY.
I reread all the Macdonald books several years ago. They hold up very well over the years. Probably my favorite private detective novelist after Raymond Chandler.
Steve, I completely agree with you on the Archer novels. Top-shelf.