Ross Macdonald: Three Novels Of The Early 1960s: The Zebra-Striped Hearse / The Chill / The Far Side of the Dollar: 2 (Library of America Ross Macdona...see more

The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling daring flights of narrative invention and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early 1960s). Each reflects Macdonald’s enduring concern with the hidden crimes and agonizing dysfunctions...See More