“She looked up at the sun as if it were spying on her.”
Source: The Archer Files, The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator Including Newly Discovered Case Notes
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Famous Ross Macdonald Quotes
Source: The Blue Hammer
Source: The Drowning Pool
Source: Blue City
“Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.”
Source: The Drowning Pool
“I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.”
Source: The Goodbye Look
Source: Archer in Hollywood: Three Exciting Novels
Source: Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast
Source: The Underground Man
Source: Sleeping Beauty
Source: The Drowning Pool
Source: The Zebra-Striped Hearse
Source: The Blue Hammer
Source: On crime writing
Source: Sleeping Beauty
“The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.”
Source: The Way Some People Die
“An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.”
Source: The Way Some People Die
Source: Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast