Strangers in Town: Three Newly Discovered Mysteries

‘LOST' STORIES BY A MASTER
Ross
Macdonald (1915-1983) was, according to The New York Times, the author
of "the finest detective novels ever written by an American." His
detective, Lew Archer, investigates character and place and the tensions
and conflicts that form America. In Ross Macdonald's hands, Lew
Archer's home turf, southern California, becomes symbolic and (perhaps
more important) emblematic of the human struggle to make things right,
to make sense of who we are.
In an important literary discovery,
Macdonald biographer, Tom Nolan, unearthed three previously unpublished
private-eye stories by Ross Macdonald. "Death by Water," written in
1945, features Macdonald's first detective Joe Rogers, and two
novelettes from 1950 and 1955, "Strangers in Town" and "The Angry Man,"
are detailed cases of Lew Archer.
These ‘lost' stories help the
reader to understand why The New York Times also said that "classify him
how you will, Ross Macdonald is one of the best American novelists now
operating."
From Publishers Weekly