Howard Shrier's Blog - Posts Tagged "ross-macdonald"
False Lead
To many readers of crime fiction, Ross Macdonald was one of the best ever. His Lew Archer series was an inspiration to me and many of the crime writers I know, including Linwood Barclay, John Connolly and many others.
I looked him up in California in 1980, when I was 23 and dreaming of becoming a crime writer. Hoping, in fact, to become his protege. It was a bittersweet experience as you can read in this memoir, False Lead. I wrote it in 1983 after he died and recently posted it on Wattpad for Memoir Month.
http://www.wattpad.com/story/16486300...
I looked him up in California in 1980, when I was 23 and dreaming of becoming a crime writer. Hoping, in fact, to become his protege. It was a bittersweet experience as you can read in this memoir, False Lead. I wrote it in 1983 after he died and recently posted it on Wattpad for Memoir Month.
http://www.wattpad.com/story/16486300...
