Arsenal,
Re your question below:
"Should I read Ross MacDonald's 'Lew Archer' cases in
sequence, just like Lawrence Block's 'Matthew Scudder?' Do
the personality of character varies as time goes on?"
He goes through changes, but nothing like what Matt Scudder
goes through. He's more of a cypher than Scudder.
Nevertheless, he does get older. He's just gone through a
divorce in the first novel, THE MOVING TARGET (which became
the movie HARPER), and, in the first few books, we gets hints
of the after-effects of that failed relationship.
I'd say read 'em in order, but if you can't do that
conveniently, you won't be losing the thread of the character
in the same way you would if you read the Scudders out of
order. Start with the short story collection THE NAME IS
ARCHER (aka LEW ARCHER - PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR), then go onto
THE MOVING TARGET.
JIM DOHERTY
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