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	Ross Macdonald
		Lew Archer, the PI that made Ross Macdonald famous, was introduced in The Moving Target (1949).
		When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections.
		In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach.
	www.bastulli.com /Macdonald/Macdonald.htm (1747 words)

	Archer articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Martin, Archer John Porter MARTIN, ARCHER JOHN PORTER [Martin, Archer John Porter] 1910-2002, English biochemist, educated at Cambridge Univ. From 1938 to 1946 he carried on chemical research in the laboratories of the Wool Industries Association at Leeds, Yorkshire.
		Sagittarius SAGITTARIUS [Sagittarius] [Latthe archer], constellation lying on the ecliptic (the sun's apparent path through the heavens) between Scorpius and Capricornus; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac.
		He was the greatest archer in the Trojan War and a faithful comrade of his half brother, the Telamonian Ajax.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Archer (416 words)

	Ross Macdonald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Macdonald first introduced the popular detective Lew Archer, the tough but humane private eye who would inhabit some twenty of his novels, in The Moving Target in 1949.
		Lew Archer derives his name from Sam Spade's partner Miles Archer, and from Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
		Macdonald's plots were complicated, and often turned on Archer's unearthing family secrets of his clients and of the criminals who victimized them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ross_MacDonald_(author) (498 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / The last testament of Ross Macdonald
		Archer solves murders by uncovering the traumatic memories of adults who had suffered or witnessed misdeeds as children.
		In "The Chill" (1963), Archer uncovers a bizarre mock-Oedipal coverup in which a murderer lives with her college dean husband, posing as his mother.
		The novel was to have been a grand finale: The plot spans Lew Archer's career, and in it the genealogical detective learns he has a long-lost daughter.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/11/02/the_last_testament_of_ross_macdonald (772 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Archer is a low-key figure who observes the action from sidelines.
		In THE CHILL (1964) Archer is engaged to trace a missing spouse, but reveals Oedipal echoes in the relationship between a college dean and his elderly and lethal wife.
		Lew Archer: born in 1917, attended A grade school in Oakland, returned to Long Beach and became involved in gang fights before a whiskey-smelling plainclothesman set him straight.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/macdonald_ross.html (1028 words)

	Ross Macdonald
		Ross Macdonald's famous private detective is Lew Archer, name having been lifted from Dashiell Hammett's novel Maltese Falcon (detective Miles Archer) according to some sources; but from his sign of the zodiac, Sagittarius, according to the author.
		Lew Archer, private detective in the land of dream-California; in the land of peaches and honey, misery and murder-male and female!
		Archer is no Freud, who interpreters human behavior, painful experiences, mainly inside a sexual framework.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /rossmacd.htm (1675 words)

	Search Results for "Archer"
		...Martin, Archer John Porter, 1910-, English biochemist, educated at Cambridge Univ. From 1938 to 1946 he carried on chemical research in the laboratories of the Wool...
		Its name originated from the fact that in its early form it resembled an archer's bow, but by the 17th cent.
		He was the greatest archer in the Trojan War and a faithful comrade of his half brother, the Telamonian...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Archer (258 words)

	Lew Archer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lew Archer is a fictional character created by Ross Macdonald.
		Raymond Chandler's books were studies of Marlowe's character and code of honor.
		Macdonald on the other hand used Archer as a lens to explore the relationships of the other characters in the books.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lew_Archer (284 words)

	D is for Daughter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lew Archer was born in either 1914 or 1918 (internal evidence is a little contradictory).
		Lew was at this time married, although, as we shall see, this was not to last.
		I imagine that the cases Lew decided to write up would not only be the ones he thought would be interesting to an audience, but also the ones that he had an emotional connection to.
	www.pjfarmer.com /chronicles/kinsey.htm (621 words)

	Pam's Book Log (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lew Archer is hired by a wealthy, retired Army officer, Colonel Blackwell, to investigate his daughter's undersirable fiance´.
		Archer quickly discovers that both points of view are close to the mark.
		Lew Archer is not much like Phillip Marlowe, except in the general inclination to try to save people in trouble.
	www.physics.ucla.edu /~kor2/booklog/macdonald-zebrahearse.html (429 words)

	Major Works: Ross Macdonald's The Galton Case
		It manifests irony and physical toughness, but the it is ultimately psychological: the relation between the apparent plot and the revealed plot is that of adulthood to childhood, an exploration of the conscious and unconscious desires of parents and their children for love, success, and posterity.
		Detective Lew Archer is hired by lawyer Gordon Sable to search for Anthony Galton, the long-lost son of Maria Galton, who is in her 90s and dying.
		Archer vacillates between a belief in him and a suspicion that Brown is a talented imposter.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/GaltonCase.HTM (829 words)

	Opiniatrety: Archer on Knowledge
		Slovekin's asking if Archer knows for certain [3] might be taken to shift the standards for knowledge up, but Archer goes on to assert something [6] that pretty much entails [2]; so he evidently doesn't know [6] by the new standard either.
		Not only that, Archer makes clear [5] that he'd stake his reputation on the truth of his assertions, which is eerily like my account of assertion on which the speaker stakes her credibility on the truth (or at least justification) of what she says.
		Archer's evidence is good enough for him to try to get Slovekin to believe, but not good enough for him to try to get Slovekin to broadcast the report.
	mattweiner.net /blog/archives/000409.html (1487 words)

	Large Print Reviews - Sleeping Beauty - An Audio Book Review
		When Archer first meets her, she is attempting to clean the oil off of one of the many birds that have become soaked in the suffocating goo.
		Not only does Archer have to contend with the missing girl, and the idea that, in a manner, he might be responsible for her death, but he also must deal with her grossly complex family, a ransom demand, and a couple of dead bodies.
		Archer leads a life that constantly exposes him to the more appalling visages of human life, including sin, murder, and mental instability.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /rmsleeping.html (830 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: The Lew Archer Novels
		That year, long before he created Lew Archer, he produced two books which, their considerable merits aside, are valuable as indicators of his early concern with themes and fictional modes which dominate his later writing.
		Isolated, guilty, constantly compromised by the nature of his work and the demands of personal and professional survival, he labors not to change a world or any corner of it, but to preserve something of his own integrity and decency.
		Lew Archer is a natural successor to Hammett's jaded Continental Op and Chandler's cynical knight-errant, Philip Marlowe, but his problems and solutions are far closer to us and the business of living now.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=119559 (931 words)

	Lew Archer
		What makes Archer unique among this group is not just the fact that the books are a sustained narrative spanning three decades, but that they also made the genre relevant to a changing society.
		Archers has no time for the society he has to investigate and is critical of it: "When you have money to live on, and a nice house, and good weather most of the time, and still your life goes wrong - well, who can you blame?".
		It injects a note of optimism in Archers relationship with a young journalist Betty Jo: "After a while I could see the steady blue pulse in her temple, the beating of the silent hammer which meant that she was alive.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /archer.html (1886 words)

	Lew Archer: Private Investigator -- An Out-of-Print Classic
		The 1977 collection, Lew Archer: Private Investigator, includes all of the stories contained in The Name is Archer as well as two additional stories that were published subsequent to 1954.
		When it becomes apparent that the young woman may have drowned, Archer begins to suspect that either the girl’s husband who has recently returned home from the service or even her own mother may be involved in what looks less and less like an accident.
		As Archer investigates the death of an artist friend in “The Bearded Lady” he uncovers a bizarre love triangle with Freudian overtones involving his deceased buddy, the dead man’s fiancée and the girl’s stepmother.
	journals.aol.com /jcc55883/TheMeanStreets/entries/2005/04/25/lew-archer-private-investigator----an-out-of-print-classic/529 (840 words)

	Feature \| Kevin Smith: It's Personal
		For any of us whose lives have been touched by the compassionate missions of Lew Archer, the Zevon tale isn't so much a surprise as a confirmation of what we might have suspected: that Ross Macdonald was not far removed from his great creation.
		Most people I know who are Archer fans galloped through the series in their late teens and early 20s, a time when most of us are already feeling a bit lost ourselves.
		And onto this social and political battlefield drove Lew Archer, maybe with an overnight bag on the seat beside him, come to track down that missing daughter, that delinquent son, that absent father.
	www.januarymagazine.com /features/macsmith.html (2649 words)

	Salon Books \| The case of the brokenhearted father
		Archer had more substance when he premiered in "The Moving Target." He was like Philip Marlowe's kid brother.
		Archer had to chase down all those smugglers and heroin dealers and crooks who ran professional wrestling.
		Archer was such a sap that he read Anaïs Nin and Djuna Barnes.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/03/cov_16feature.html (1046 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 117, M
		The second novel by the author of the Lew Archer detective series, who is widely considered the only postwar writer of hardboiled crime fiction to merit comparison with Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, the writers who, for practical purposes, originated the genre.
		His fifth book, the first to be written under a pseudonym, and the first Lew Archer mystery, which was made into the movie "Harper" a number of years later, with Paul Newman.
		The last of the Lew Archer private eye novels, which had a first printing of 35,000 copies.
	www.lopezbooks.com /catalog/117/117-07.html (2659 words)

	Crippen & Landru Books: Strangers In Town: Three Newly Discovered Mysteries by Ross Macdonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Ross Macdonald’s hands, Lew Archer’s home turf, southern California, becomes symbolic and (perhaps more important) emblematic of the human struggle to make things right, to make sense of who we are.
		The second, "Stranger in Town," has (Lew) Archer accepting the job of proving the innocence of a young fl man found at the scene of the crime.
		His Lew Archer novels evolved the shoot-first-ask-questions-later tough guy into a detective who solved his cases by understanding the people, motives, and context of the crime.
	www.crippenlandru.com /books.asp?ID=49 (1550 words)

	Lew Archer Summary
		Lew Archer is a fictional character created by Ross Macdonald.
		It also has an introduction by the author, in which he makes the point that the American private eye "speaks for our common humanity" and demonstrates the shift from aristocracy (as represented by such investigators as Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey) to democracy.
		Macdonald enthusiasts will be rushing to get their hands on this book, and so should everyone else.
	www.bookrags.com /Lew_Archer (152 words)

	The Columnists.com has columns about entertainment, television, music, and screen classics
		In "The Moving Target," Lew Archer has already left his police job in Long Beach, California, and begun working as a private detective, mostly doing the grut work of evidence-gathering for divorce cases and the like.
		Through his first-person narration, Archer lets us know the L.A. area of the late 1940s, the period of "The Moving Target," is mostly run by corrupt rich people and the racketeers and crooked cops they manipulate.
		Ultimately, Archer learns that Sampson has been snatched and is being held for ransom by a motley crew of gangster wannabes and typical Southern California low-life flakes.
	www.thecolumnists.com /miller/miller206.html (2104 words)

	Amazon.com: The Chill: A Lew Archer Novel: Books: Ross MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Private detective Lew Archer is engaged to trace a missing spouse, who has vanished--apparently of her own free will--only a day into her honeymoon.
		Archer begins pulling at the threads of the case, and by page 25 they're already starting to reveal a deeper, darker story involving two murders 20 years apart.
		This Lew Archer novel is in that tradition in that it doesn't break any taboos, but it does hint at it.
	www.amazon.com /Chill-Lew-Archer-Novel/dp/0786204613 (1496 words)

	Archer TV Show - Archer Television Show - TV.com
		Archer was a detective drama based on the novels of Ross Macdonald.
		Private Detective Lew Archer encounters a con man who uses naive teenagers to extort huge sums of money from their wealthy parents.
		A dying mobster hires Archer to find the wife and son he abandoned years earlier, so that he can give them some of his ill-gotten money.
	www.tv.com /archer/show/2161/summary.html (119 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Ross Macdonald
		But after Lew Archer plays the good samaritan and picks up a bloodied hitchhiker, he finds himself in town for a few days awaiting a murder inquest.
		Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law.
		In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred--and sufficient motive for...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=54007 (606 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Underground Man, by Ross Macdonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		...Before the present puzzle is unraveled Archer-and the reader-encounters once again a cast of characters which has remained almost unchanging from one Macdonald novel to the next...
		...It could be argued, I suppose, that Archer in his grayness is more "realistic" than Marlowe, but that doesn't compensate for his lack of humor and depth...
		...Lew Archer is, by his creator's own admission, "paper-thin," a mere device who "makes it possible for me to dredge up material I wouldn't be able to dredge up writing in my own person...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V52I3P98-1.htm (2595 words)

	Friendster - lew archer amoyo
		c archer d ko masyado kilala, c archer bago ko lang nakilala, c archer gusto ko pa makilala, c archer ang hirap i-describe....
		anyway, c archer gusto ko i-greet ng happy 35th birthday...
		LEW ive known him as a loving dad as in bago gumimik kailangan tulog muna ang 2 chikiting nya kaya kung kasama mo sya gumimik wait for him ng matagal hehehhe....
	www.friendster.com /21641112 (377 words)

	"Archer" (1975) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Brian Keith was probably a better actor than Graves and maybe even as good as Newman, but his Archer was as exciting to watch as paint drying.
		Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer was an attractive, early middle-aged man working as a PI in Los Angeles.
		Macdonald's Lew Archer was basically the professor as private detective (or perhaps the psychotherapist as private detective), and Holbrook could have filled the bill.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0072468 (721 words)

	Westways Magazine - Archived Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Recently, though, there's been much new interest in Macdonald's life and work: full-length radio dramatizations of two Lew Archer books, a major Macdonald biography, and publication this year of three previously unprinted Macdonald novelettes.
		Now, 25 years after Lew Archer's last case, readers are rediscovering how striking and poetic are Macdonald's descriptions of the Golden State, how piercing his glances into California's tarnished heart.
		So in Target and the next few Lew Archer books (there'd be 18 Archer titles in all), the detective went places a postwar reader would expect an L.A. private eye to visit: Sunset Strip clubs, gangsters' lairs, Malibu bordellos, dope takers' flophouses.
	www.aaa-calif.com /westways/1101/tarnish.asp (751 words)

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