Ross Macdonald
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Keith Millar (1915-12-13 - 1983-07-11), who wrote under the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of mystery fiction and detective fiction.
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[edit] The Moving Target (1949)
- Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.
[edit] The Way Some People Die (1951)
- An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.
- The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
[edit] The Drowning Pool (1952)
- They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through mountains, cut down a thousand year of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted.
[edit] The Goodbye Look (1969)
- "You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit it?"
"I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people."
- Money costs too much.
[edit] Sleeping Beauty (1973)
- I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.
- Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth.
