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This book is fantastic.
Random quote: The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
He doesn't do try to do this every page. His early work was clearly trying too hard, but later Ross Macd is perfect. (The very last books you can see the decline sadly.)

after the first time I read this I ran out and bought everything else Ross Macdonald ever wrote, and damnit I'd do it again. So good.