The Drowning Pool by John Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar) (Pan 325, 1955). Cover Art by L. Houghton. #TheDrowningPool #JohnRossMacDonald #RossMacDonald #KennethMillar #1950s #PanBook #PanBooks #LewArcher #cover #coverart #artwork #paperback #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers

🎉Happy Birthday to #RossMacDonald (Kenneth Millar), #bornonthisday in 1915! He transformed crime fiction with his psychologically rich, Southern California-set stories featuring PI Lew Archer, becoming a key figure in the noir tradition alongside Hammett & Chandler.#CrimeFiction

#ComingUpOnTCM

HARPER (1966) Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
Dir.: Jack Smight 7:15 AM PT

A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband.

2h 1m | Mystery | TV-14

#TCM #TCMParty #RossMacdonald

Edward Gorey, mystery fan. A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.

I recently visited the Edward Gorey House on Cape Cod and learned that Gorey was a devoted #mystery fan. I blogged on some of the mysteries in his library. elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/10/Gore... #AgathaChristie #RossMacdonald #JaneLangton #WilkieCollins #PatriciaWentworth #detectivefiction

Book cover. The Archer Files, The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator by Ross Macdonald (2007) Cover shows a woman's eyes looking through a window and below a man in a fedora, wearing gloves and a trench coat lighting a cigarette (4 stars)

Photo of Ross Macdonald (nee Kenneth Millar) Born Los Gatos, CA 1915, died Santa Barbara, CA 1983. Author of hard - boiled detective fiction and creator of PI Lew Archer.

💙📚 #BlueSkyBooks The Short Story
(Books by 46 authors I've read & enjoyed)
46 authors, various genres
Author #26 / 46
#Booksky
#ShortStory
#RossMacdonald (Mystery)

Happy (𝟭𝟯𝟭st) birthday, Blanche #Knopf!🎂🥳 [°July 30, 1894 – June 4, 1966]🌹😔🕯️

#bookpublisher #borzoi #AlfredAKnopfSr #AlfredAKnopfJr #ThomasMann #RaymondChandler #DashiellHammett #RossMacdonald #Freud #Camus #Gide #Sartre #deBeauvoir #BerthaSamuels #BlancheWolf #BlancheWolfKnopf #BlancheKnopf

Because 18 Lew Archer novels isn’t enough, I just bought “the complete short stories…”

My buddy, writer MS Harker, and are reading all the Lew Archer books this summer.

ps. Watch for Harker’s *Don’t Shoot the Piano Tuner* (forthcoming, watch for it at […]

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The Instant Enemy by Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar) (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1968). Cover Art by Muni Lieblein. #TheInstantEnemy #RossMacdonald #KennethMillar #1960s #book #books #coverart #artwork #cover #LewArcher #MuniLieblein #Crime #MYSTERY #thriller #thrillers #thrillerbooks #AlfredAKnopf

Literarischer #11Juli

„Die Wände waren mit Büchern vollgestopft, viele davon in Fremdsprachen, wie eine Isolierung gegen die unmittelbare Gegenwart.“

#RossMacdonald #DerUntergrundmann Tod 1983

𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑫𝒂𝒚, 𝟰𝟮 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐....🫡

𝑰𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒎 Ross #Macdonald [°Dec. 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983]🕯️😔🌹

#Hardboiled #LewArcher #TheZebraStripedHearse #TheUndergroundMan #TheWaySomePeopleDie #TheGaltonCase #TheChill #TheMovingTarget #TheDrowningPool #TheBlueHammer #KennethMillar #RossMacdonald

Photo of Ross Macdonald, born Los Gatos, CA 1915, died Santa Barbara, CA 1983. Canadian / American author of crime fiction. Featured PI Lew Archer

Book cover Sleeping Beauty by Ross Macdonald (Lew Archer #17 / 1973) Top left side colored pink with black lettering, top horizontal blue with pink lettering (authors name), bottom is green with title in white lettering. Drawing of woman in bed with curtains blowing.

💙📚50 Mystery Novels
No particular order (50 authors, 50 books)
Day 17 / 50
#Booksky 🪐📚👀
#bookchallenge
#Mysteries
#RossMacDonald

𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑫𝒂𝒚, 𝟱𝟵 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐.....🕯️

𝑰𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒎 Blanche #Knopf [°July 30, 1894 – June 4, 1966]🌹😔

#OrdreNationaldelaLégiondHonneur #Borzoi #RaymondChandler #DashiellHammett #RossMacdonald #AlbertCamus #JeanPaulSartre #SimonedeBeauvoir #AlfredAKnopfSr #BerthaSamuels #BlancheWolf #BlancheKnopf

#ComingUpOnTCM

HARPER (1966) Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
Dir.: Jack Smight 5:00 PM PT

A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband.

2h 1m | Mystery | TV-14

#TCM #TCMParty #RossMacdonald

"We all write on the verge of silence. When the words come, they're pure good luck, like rain." ~Kenneth Millar (aka #RossMacdonald), 1974 letter to Eudora #Welty

#OnWriting

#ComingUpOnTCM

HARPER (1966) Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall Julie Harris Dir.: Jack Smight 12:30 AM PT

A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman's missing husband.

2h 1m | Mystery | TV-14

#TCM #TCMParty #RossMacdonald

In loving memory of Raymond #Chandler [°July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959]🌹😔🕯️

#hardboiled #RaymondChandler #RossMacdonald #DashiellHammett

Remembering Ross #Macdonald, né Kenneth Millar

[°Dec. 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983]🫶🌹😔

#RossMacdonald #LewArcher #KennethMillar #TomNolan

When he died in July 1983, Ross #Macdonald was the best-known and most highly regarded crime-fiction writer in America...

#RossMacdonald #DashiellHammett #RaymondChandler

The Lew #Archer hard-boiled novels are recognized as some of the most significant American mystery books of the mid-20th century, bringing a literary sophistication to the genre 🫶

William #Goldman called his works "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American".

#RossMacdonald

The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar) (Fontana 1345, 1966). Movie Tie-In. #TheMovingTarget #RossMacdonald #KennethMillar #1960s #book #books #paperback #paulnewman #LewArcher #cover #coverart #artwork #crime #MYSTERY #thrillerbook #thrillers #thriller #FontanaBooks #movietiein

Meet Me At The Morgue by John Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1953). Cover Art by Bill English. #MeetMeATTheMorgue #JohnRossMacdonald #KennethMillar #1950s #AlfredAKnopf #BillEnglish #coverart #cover #artwork #crime #MYSTERY #thriller #RossMacdonald #thrillers #thrillerbooks

#krimitante #booktober #Leseempfehlung #krimi #hardboiled #bookchallenge
3. Woche
19. Tag 😊
Jeden tag ein Cover aus meiner #lesechallenge

#rossmacdonald #lewarcher
Sämtliche Detektivstories um Lew Archer

Literarischer #11Juli

„The moral beatings that people took from their children, I was thinking, were the hardest to endure and the hardest to escape.”

#RossMacdonald #TheGoodbyeLook Tod 1983

Purple magenta text on white: The Color Purple

🔴 The Daily Heller: Sketching MOEs for “The Color Purple”
FEat.: Ross MacDonald's film titles and MOEs for director Blitz Bazawule’s The Color Purple
By Steven Heller @thedailyheller at @printmag
#filmTitles #MOEs #RossMacDonald

www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

Anyone else a fan of #rossmacdonald #lewarcher #mysteries?

#booktober
#hardboiled
Endlich habe ich dieses Buch mit Kurzgeschichten von #rossmacdonald wieder