Recently Read: Black Money

Recently Read: Black Money, by Ross MacDonald. This is a detective story in the same vein as Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe, starring MacDonald’s own long-running character, Lew Archer. It’s set in that mysterious LA of the past, when things seemed nicer, although obviously only on the surface. Good fun, although Archer isn’t the quick-witted wise-cracking type like say, Spenser in Robert Parker’s crime series.