Hard-boiled Heretic: The Lew Archer Novels of Ross MacdonaldA study of the character of Lew Archer and the novels that he appears in. |
Contents
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A Humanist Priest in a Secular World | 17 |
What Makes Lew Tick | 21 |
The Calling | 31 |
Sleeping with the Enemy | 41 |
Tools of the Trade | 45 |
The Lonely Streets | 73 |
Sermons on the Mount | 83 |
The Tie That Binds | 97 |
Father Confessor | 109 |
Notes | 116 |
A Ross Macdonald Bibliography | 122 |
Selected Secondary Bibliography | 124 |
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Hard-boiled Heretic: The Lew Archer Novels of Ross Macdonald Mary Stanley Weinkauf Limited preview - 1994 |
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