tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post8829899053313347393..comments2024-03-16T18:38:04.996-04:00Comments on Critics At Large : Elmore Leonard: An AppreciationCritics at Largehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18073851963852030361noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-69915374729030087672015-01-28T21:18:00.873-05:002015-01-28T21:18:00.873-05:00 Here’s a situation that arises continually in t... Here’s a situation that arises continually in the Lew Archer novels: someone Archer is investigating is surprised to learn how much he knows about them. In Black Money Kitty Hendricks voices this surprise in virtually those very words –“How do you know so much about me?” Usually, though, the knowledge Archer has obtained when this question comes up turns out to be peripheral – that is, it doesn’t bear directly on the solution to the case but is just a part of the hopelessly tangled morass of action and information Archer is working his way through. In the novels that most critics and scholars seem to feel comprise the mature Macdonald style – The Galton Case through The Blue Hammer – the reader is constantly being thrown off the scent this way.<br />http://postmoderndeconstructionmadhouse.blogspot.com/2014/12/ross-macdonald-black-money.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com