Collier, J. Wet Saturday
Fearing, K. The big clock
Christie, A. What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw!
Ellin, S. The payoff
Greene, G. The basement room
Hammett, D. Fly paper
Cheever, J. The five-forty-eight
Stevenson, R. L. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Cain, J. M. The baby in the icebox
Millar, M. The couple next door
Dahl, R. [The landlady](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504259W)
Gilbert, M. The Amateur
Highsmith, P. The terrapin
Francis, D. Enquiry
Macdonald, R. The far side of the dollar
O'Connor, F. The comforts of home
Ross Macdonald was the main pseudonym used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works (particularly the Archer novels) have received attention in academic circles for their psychological depth, sense of place, use of language, sophisticated imagery and integration of philosophy into genre fiction. Brought up in the province of Ontario, Canada, Macdonald eventually settled in the state of California, where he died in 1983.
