True Grit: Ross Macdonald Gets His Due

True Grit: Ross Macdonald Gets His Due

The beautifully charged language of Ross Macdonald’s detective novels do more than adorn—it also helps swiftly clinch a character for the reader. By Malcolm Forbes.Ed here: For me the finest private eye writer of all time and one of the five most important writers of American crime fiction in the genre's history. This is from The Daily Beast.
by Malcolm Forbes | August 7, 2012 6:30 PM EDT

‘The Underground Man’ by Ross Macdonald. 320 pp. Penguin. $10. (Bettmann / Corbis)