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The Doomsters by Ross Macdonald

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Author Biography

Name: Kenneth Millar
Variant Name: John Macdonald, John Ross Macdonald, Ross Macdonald
Birth Date: December 13, 1915
Death Date: July 11, 1983
Place of Birth: Los Gatos, California
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Kenneth Millar
10552 words, approx. 35.2 pages
Kenneth Millar, who wrote as Ross Macdonald, was the successor to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in the development of the hard-boiled detective story into serious literature. Millar wrote two dozen novels between 1944 and 1976, eighteen of them f...
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Biography of Kenneth Millar
2812 words, approx. 9.4 pages
Kenneth Millar, who has written under the pseudonyms John Macdonald, John Ross Macdonald, and Ross Macdonald, was born in Los Gatos, California, on 13 December 1915, but was raised in Ontario, Canada. When Millar was three years old, his father abandoned...


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The Doomsters Information
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The Doomsters is a 1958 mystery novel written by Ross Macdonald, the seventh book in the Lew Archer series. Many sources agree that this book marked a turning point in the series, wherein Macdonald abandoned his imitations of Raymond Chandler and...


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Mail on Sunday
Doomsters may have overdone it ; Market watch
03/23/2008: 314 words, approx. 1 pages
How bad is it going to get? A giant American investment bank evaporates; City barrow boys sell short HBOS, which falls 20 per cent; Morgan Stanley predicts 20 per cent property price falls; and Kate Barker, a Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member,...
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The Independent - London
Leading Article: Will the doomsters please look at the figures
08/08/1997: 1,011 words, approx. 3 pages
The mongers of doom are making rather a lot of noise about the state of the economy. Another quarter-point rise in interest rates and some commentators paint a picture of industrial collapse, rising unemployment and mortgage repossessions. This stew of gloom is overdone to...
 


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The Doomsters by Ross Macdonald

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