"I suggest reading The Chill. If you don't like that one, you
probably won't like *any* of Macdonald's late-period novels.
I think it's his best book."
I'm with Mario on this. As Greil Marcus once wrote (in his
Rolling Stone review of Last Good Kiss, which turned me on to
Crumley; thank you very much, Greil), the fog is a character
in The Chill.
As for The Name is Archer: When I first read it years ago, I
was about a quarter to a third of the way through it when I
started wondering why none of the chapters seemed to connect
to each other. I kept wondering why Macdonald hadn't at least
started to draw the various plotlines together.
Then I looked at it again and went, Duh! It's short stories.
They're good, but his novels are better.
Mark
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