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Ross Macdonald (1) (1915–1983)

Autor(a) de A voragem da morte

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Ross Macdonald (1) foi considerado como pseudónimo de John Ross Macdonald.

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Obras de Ross Macdonald

Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como John Ross Macdonald.

A voragem da morte (1950) 811 cópias
The Moving Target (1949) 754 cópias
The Chill (1964) 726 cópias
The Underground Man (1971) 717 cópias
The Blue Hammer (1976) 691 cópias
The Galton Case (1959) 683 cópias
Black Money (1966) 566 cópias
The Goodbye Look (1969) 545 cópias
The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962) 528 cópias
The Ivory Grin (1952) 528 cópias
The Far Side of the Dollar (1965) 506 cópias
Sleeping Beauty (1973) 506 cópias
The Way Some People Die (1951) 486 cópias
Find a Victim (1954) 441 cópias
The Wycherly Woman (1961) 430 cópias
The Barbarous Coast (1956) 417 cópias
The Instant Enemy (1968) 391 cópias
The Doomsters (1958) 383 cópias
Meet Me at the Morgue (1953) 312 cópias
The Name Is Archer (1955) 289 cópias
Blue City (1947) 243 cópias
The Ferguson Affair (1960) 218 cópias
The Three Roads (1948) 196 cópias
The Dark Tunnel (1944) 166 cópias
Trouble Follows Me (1946) 137 cópias
The Archer Files (2007) 118 cópias
Archer at Large (1970) 107 cópias
Archer in Jeopardy (1979) 72 cópias
Ross Macdonald Selects Great Stories of Suspense (1974) — Editor; Contribuinte — 69 cópias
Archer in Hollywood (1967) 63 cópias
Archer, P.I. (1977) 61 cópias
The Drowning Pool [1975 film] (1975) — Original novel — 20 cópias
On Crime Writing (1973) 16 cópias
Midnight Blue (2010) 14 cópias
Der Drahtzieher. (1999) 13 cópias
The Imaginary Blonde (1953) 13 cópias
The Guilty Ones (2009) 11 cópias
Einer lügt immer (1999) 11 cópias
Famous Edinburgh Crimes (1981) 7 cópias
Find the Woman (1995) 4 cópias
O alvo móvel (2007) 3 cópias
The Faulkner Investigation (1985) 2 cópias
Pozegnalne Spojrzenie (2007) 2 cópias
Sunset boulevard (1992) 2 cópias
Lew Archer story (1991) 2 cópias
Z tamtej strony dolara 1 exemplar(es)
Potępieni 1 exemplar(es)
Chłód 1 exemplar(es)
Il sangue non è acqua 1 exemplar(es)
El escalofro̕ 1 exemplar(es)
Człowiek pogrzebany 1 exemplar(es)
A Costa Maldita (1987) 1 exemplar(es)
Barbarské pobřeží (2000) 1 exemplar(es)
Alguns Morrem Assim 1 exemplar(es)
Um Olhar de Despedida 1 exemplar(es)
Los malignos (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
Les oiseaux de malheur 1 exemplar(es)
Retrato fatal, Um 1 exemplar(es)
Wild Goose Chase 1 exemplar(es)
Lewe pieniądze 1 exemplar(es)
ROMANZI 1 exemplar(es)
Lew Archer 1 exemplar(es)
The Singing Pigeon 1 exemplar(es)
We Went On From There 1 exemplar(es)
Gone Girl 1 exemplar(es)
The Bearded Lady (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
The Suicide 1 exemplar(es)
The Sinister Habit 1 exemplar(es)
The Lew Archer omnibus (1997) 1 exemplar(es)
Sämtliche Detektivstories (1976) 1 exemplar(es)
La mineure en fugue (1971) 1 exemplar(es)
Okrutne wybrzeże (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
Liikkuva maali 1 exemplar(es)
Must raha : [romaan] (2002) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como John Ross Macdonald.

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (2015) — Contribuinte — 137 cópias
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror (1982) — Contribuinte — 79 cópias
A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories (2002) — Contribuinte — 78 cópias
Great American Mystery Stories of the 20th Century (1989) — Contribuinte — 73 cópias
Harper [1966 film] (1966) — Novel — 43 cópias

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From the looks of other reviews, mine is a minority viewpoint, so be warned: but I found the first two-thirds of this book boring—something I would never have said about any of the previous eight books in the Archer series. The main characters are flat and uninteresting. The minor characters are (mostly) described without the zing that I'm used to supporting characters getting in other of Macdonald's books. The commentary is cookie-cutter wry rather than witty or surprising. And too many conversations read like depositions.

Then, around chapter 20, the author wakes up and remembers who he is. The characters start to live like real people and the similes start to fly like they should in a good noir thriller:

"A fuller moon than last night's was rising behind the trees. It gleamed through their branches like a woman's breast pressing against wrought iron."

"I glanced up at her tense small face: she looked like a bunny after a hard Easter."

The solution starts coming into place and it's admirably complex, surprising, yet right and believable. A four-star ending after a three-star beginning.
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john.cooper | outras 10 resenhas | Mar 7, 2024 |
Many critics consider this to be Ross Macdonald's finest book, and Macdonald himself professed to agree...perhaps because of the general consensus among critics. I love his work, and this is a good book, but it's not in my top three (The Wycherly Woman, The Chill and The Underground Man, in that order). The fact is that critics are partial to Black Money because it nods self-consciously to Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and such allusions are considered the height of sophistication in the literary world. In a very real sense, Macdonald wrote this novel for the critics after a couple of them had disparaged certain elements of The Chill. Artists are sensitive, and I guess it's not surprising that Macdonald responded to criticism by trying to prove that he could produce a "serious" book, but he needn't have bothered. He was already a first-class writer, and didn't have to demonstrate that to a bunch of stuffy literary people whose readership was a tiny fraction of his own. Like I said, Black Money is good, but I think Macdonald may have overvalued it a little falsely. (Even as he proclaimed this his best novel, however, he had to concede that The Chill contained his finest plotting.) Also, there are a few instances of editorial sloppiness--a rare phenomenon in Macdonald's oeuvre--which deny this book a place among the top tier of his work, in my opinion.

The back cover synopsis for Bantam's 1973 paperback edition tries hard to convey the impression that Macdonald had suddenly turned into Mickey Spillane, and is downright hilarious: "Lew Archer made a deal with fat little Rich Boy at the posh Montevista Tennis Club. Seems Rich Boy had lost his beautiful fiancée to a stranger with a suspiciously phony French accent. So Rich Boy hired Archer to retrieve the runaway fiancée. Sounded like a fast, clean bundle for old, broke Archer..." You have to wonder who wrote that. (It certainly wasn't Macdonald.) Maybe the publisher was apprehensive about the book's literary pretensions and felt the need to compensate with an overtly hard-boiled teaser?

Black Money is a standard Archer novel in nearly every measurable sense. (And it happens to contain one of Macdonald's most painfully beautiful sentences: "His expression turned faraway, further and further away, as if his mind was climbing back over the curve of time to the source of his life.") The casual reader probably won't even notice the allusions to Gatsby, and those who have enjoyed Macdonald's other books will like this one, too. But it's emphatically not the best thing he ever wrote.
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Jonathan_M | outras 15 resenhas | Feb 18, 2024 |
Start the year off with a bang! I had picked this up in a bookshop on a whim last month. I had never heard of the author nor the book, but the tagline referencing Hammett and Chandler meant I could not pass it up.

Fast-paced and well-plotted, with a resolution that had me yelping out loud in disbelief (in a good way!) I foresee more MacDonald in my future. And maybe more hardboiled private eyes too. I shall have to browse the Edgar list more carefully.

Aside 1: Has the golden age of hardboiled detectives passed already or are there some great modern ones? Did they just evolve into something new, like Scandinoir, which are much darker and intentionally uglier? Is it even possible in the internet age to have these sorts of gritty yet light, bantery run-arounds?

Aside 2: whilst I was reading this, my partner had been in the middle of his first Sue Grafton. Since it's been a couple of years since I wiki'd Grafton, I thought I'd brush up. And lo and behold in the opening paragraph: "she said the strongest influence on her crime novels was author Ross Macdonald." What synchronicity.
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kitzyl | outras 20 resenhas | Jan 5, 2024 |
"His living room was the kind of room you find in back-country ranch houses where old men hold the last frontier against women and civilization and hygiene. The carpets and furniture were glazed with dirt. Months of wood ashes clogged the fireplace and sifted onto the floor. The double-barreled shotgun over the mantel was the only clean and cared-for object in the room."
 
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Mark_Feltskog | outras 14 resenhas | Dec 23, 2023 |

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