-The American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.- --
The New York Times Book Review -Another of Mr. Macdonald's somber celebrations of the evil that lurks in men's souls. . .as elaborately designed as the plot of any three-volume Victorian novel.- --
The Christian Science Monitor -It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live . . . . I owe him.- -Robert B. Parker
"The American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald." --
The New York Times Book Review "Another of Mr. Macdonald's somber celebrations of the evil that lurks in men's souls. . .as elaborately designed as the plot of any three-volume Victorian novel." --
The Christian Science Monitor "It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live . . . . I owe him." -Robert B. Parker