• Lew Archer is a fictional character created by American-Canadian writer Ross Macdonald. Archer is a private detective working in Southern California. Between...
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  • California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works (particularly the Archer novels) have received attention in academic...
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    for writer-director John Milius. He starred in the TV series Archer (1975) as Lew Archer, replacing Peter Graves who'd starred in the pilot, but it was...
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  • Thursday nights, with the show continuing to air until March 13, 1975. Lew Archer was a detective and former cop who often worked with the police but sometimes...
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  • Moving Target by Ross Macdonald. The film stars Paul Newman as Lew Harper (Lew Archer in the novel), with a cast that includes Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris...
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  • year. In 1966, a film was made of a Lew Archer novel called Harper, starring Paul Newman. The character of Archer was renamed "Harper" for the movie....
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  • include Dick Tracy, Philip Marlowe, Nick Charles, Mike Hammer, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, Slam Bradley, and The Continental Op. The style was pioneered by Carroll...
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  • problem. In his 1963 detective novel The Chill, Ross Macdonald's sleuth Lew Archer offers a wry analysis of the concept, stating: "When a woman is murdered...
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  • the tradition of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, he differs sharply from these earlier fictional detectives in that Rawlins...
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    with his detective Lew Archer. Archer, like Hammett's fictional heroes, was a camera eye, with hardly any known past. "Turn Archer sideways, and he disappears...
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    with his detective Lew Archer. Archer, like Hammett's fictional heroes, was a camera eye, with hardly any known past. "Turn Archer sideways, and he disappears...
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  • differs from the up-market California scenarios of Macdonald's later Lew Archer novels. In a 1952 letter to his publisher, he explained that he had in...
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  • The Way Some People Die (category Lew Archer (series))
    in 1951. It is Ross Macdonald's third book to feature his private eye Lew Archer. The plot centres on the activities of heroin-traffickers, a form of criminality...
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  • The Moving Target (category Lew Archer (series))
    Alfred A. Knopf in April 1949. The Moving Target introduces the detective Lew Archer, who was eventually to figure in a further seventeen novels. Up to this...
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    1974 Scream of the Wolf John Wetherby TV movie 1974 The Underground Man Lew Archer TV movie 1974 Where Have All The People Gone? Steven Anders TV movie 1975...
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  • The Drowning Pool (category Lew Archer (series))
    cases of private detective Lew Archer and was published by Alfred A. Knopf in the US and in 1952 by Cassell in the UK. Archer is hired by Maude Slocum to...
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  • The Name Is Archer is a collection of short stories written by Ross Macdonald and featuring his detective hero, Lew Archer. Originally compiled in 1955...
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    and Girls Together. Goldman suggested that Kastner make a film of the Lew Archer novels of Ross Macdonald and offered to do an adaptation. Kastner agreed...
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  • Archer is a surname in the English language. The name Archer is derived from the Middle English archere, and Old French archer, archier. The surname originated...
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  • "Young '80s" reworking of MacDonald's 1947 Hammett-style thriller--with no Lew Archer, no metaphor and no edge. It was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards...
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  • contemporary writers. Gone Girl is also the title of a Lew Archer story, in the 1955 collection The Name is Archer, by Ross Macdonald, whom Flynn has also cited...
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    Macdonald? Robert Parker?) and their tough guy heroes (Spade? Marlowe? Lew Archer? Spenser?). Not one of them could take Lehane’s Mary Pat in a fair fight...
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  • The Zebra-Striped Hearse (category Lew Archer (series))
    eye, Lew Archer. The Coen Brothers wrote an as-yet-unproduced screenplay based on the novel for Joel Silver. Colonel and Mrs. Blackwell hire Archer to investigate...
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  • Hammer Short stories The Name Is Archer Lew Archer: Private Investigator Strangers in Town Omnibuses Archer in Hollywood Archer at Large Archer in Jeopardy...
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  • Sleeping Beauty (novel) (category Lew Archer (series))
    Sleeping Beauty is a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald. Private eye Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble...
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  • Spider; Nero Wolfe; Mr. Moto; The Avenger; Philip Marlowe; James Bond; Lew Archer; Travis McGee; Monsieur Lecoq; and Arsène Lupin. The Wold Newton Universe...
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  • may refer to: The Goodbye Look, a 1969 novel by Ross Macdonald in the Lew Archer series "The Goodbye Look", a 1982 song by Donald Fagen from the album...
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  • (1950) by Ross Macdonald, part of the series starring fictional detective Lew Archer, features a subplot of a woman trying to stop distribution of a sexual...
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  • The Doomsters (category Lew Archer (series))
    novel by American writer Ross Macdonald, the seventh book in his Lew Archer series. Archer is hired by escaped mental patient Carl Hallman to investigate...
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  • Chandler's Philip Marlowe, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer and others. As many of Hammett's short stories were later published in...
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