Ross Macdonald (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

xiv, 149 pp. Ross Macdonald (pseudonym of Kenneth Millar) wrote some two dozen detective novels, among them the popular series featuring Southern California private detective Lew Archer. In THE MOVING TARGET (1949), THE DROWNING POOL (1950), and THE UNDERGROUND MAN (1971) Macdonald raised American detective fiction to a more sophisticated level, capturing an audience of more cultured and mature readers and broadening the expressive possibilities of the genre.