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11 Tobias Jones, “A Passion for Mercy,” Guardian, July 31, 2009.
12 John Connolly, “The Chill,” in Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels, edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke (New York: Atria, 2012).
13 Patricia Guy, “An American in Venice: Donna Leon,” Publishers Weekly, March 6, 2015.
14 Fredric Koeppel, “Reissue Volume ‘Ross Macdonald: Four Novels of the 1950s’ Shows Style Evolving,” Memphis Commercial Appeal, May 1, 2015.
15 Maureen Corrigan, “Revisiting a Suburbia-Gone-Sour in Ross Macdonald’s Crime Fiction,” Fresh Air, www.npr.org, April 21, 2015.
16 Millar (Macdonald) interviews with Paul Nelson, from It’s All One Case.
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INDEX
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ABC-TV, 201, 291
Act of Fear (Collins), 272, 280
Ada (Nabokov), 289, 290
Adeline, Aunt, 17, 19, 23, 27, 34, 35
Adler, Dick, 274
Adventures of Caleb Williams, The (Godwin), 232–33
À feu et à sang (Blue City), 119
Aggeler, Geoff, 149, 171
Alcoholics Anonymous, 120
Alexander, Shana, 390
Alfred A. Knopf, 30, 32, 50, 68, 86–87, 88–89, 90, 94, 99–101, 106–7, 112, 113, 119, 133, 144, 145, 146, 150, 156–59, 168–69, 186, 197, 219, 220, 248, 255, 257, 273, 292, 318, 343, 363, 390, 397
KM anthologies of, 261, 262, 268, 390, 398
pricing of mysteries by, 189, 218
promotion by, 202, 218, 245, 267, 286, 289, 304, 308–9
Algonquin Hotel, 310, 333, 354
Algren, Nelson, 12, 85, 89, 98, 124, 130, 187
Alvarez, A., 320
Ambler, Eric, 197, 255, 360
American, 92, 97, 151
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 302
American Language (Mencken), 278
American Mercury, 30, 92, 106
American Scene (Mencken), 258
“Among School Children” (Yeats), 231
An American Family, 320
Anderson, Dame Judith, 117, 353–54
Anderson, Maxwell, 41
Archer (TV series), 355–56, 359–60
Archer, Lew, see Lew Archer
Archer, Mr. (teacher), 33, 92
Argosy, 51, 197
Aristotle, 29, 63
Armstrong, Charlotte, 239
Articulate Energy: An Inquiry into the of English Poetry (Davie), 197
Ask for Me Tomorrow (M. Millar), 368, 377
Atheneum, 219
Atkinson, Brooks, 241–42
Atlantic Monthly, 282
Atwood, Margaret, 378, 383
Auden, W. H., 37, 48, 58, 64, 76, 254, 350, 400
as detective-story fan, 53–54, 59, 67, 116
KM encouraged in mystery fiction by, 54
teaching style of, 53
Avallone, Michael, 256, 275, 313, 325–26, 354, 366
Avon, 327
Bacall, Lauren, 74, 263
Bacon, Francis, 257
Bakerman, Jane S., 362, 378, 385, 398
Balakian, Nona, 339, 342, 366, 367
Baldwin, Faith, 65
Bank of America, 294–95
Banshee (M. Millar), 403
Bantam Books, 144–46, 151–52, 156, 158, 168, 169, 172–73, 196–97, 226, 255, 285, 291, 292, 387, 397
Archer series decisions of, 255, 260, 261–62
book promotions of, 309, 319, 333
KM books repackaged by, 298
KM’s grievance at handling by, 288
printings of, 238, 267, 357, 388, 391
Barclay, Linwood, 368, 382, 397
Barkham, John, 308
Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, 40, 119
BBC, 315, 316, 410
Beacon Press, 224, 229
Beast in View (M. Millar), 152–53, 167, 169, 173, 183, 198, 355
Beatles, 245, 300, 308
beatniks, 192, 196
Bellow, Saul, 340, 382
Ben-Hur (Wallace), 92
Berger, Thomas, 12, 412
Bernstein, Jane, 366, 377, 378, 390, 399
Beyond This Point Are Monsters (M. Millar), 291, 326
Big Fix, The (Simon), 334–36
Big Sleep, The (Chandler), 51, 93, 108, 365
Big Sleep, The (film), 74, 263
Biltmore Hotel, 95, 149
Birds and the Beasts Were There, The (M. Millar), 292
birdwatching, 224, 230, 238, 240–42, 244
Blackboard Jungle (Hunter), 154
Black Mask, 51, 130, 142
“Black Pearl” (M. Millar), 150
Black Tide (Easton), 297
Blake, William, 51, 52
Blanke, Henry, 73, 74
“Blind Justice” (“Blindman’s Bluff”) (M. Millar), 150
Block, Lawrence, 412
Bogart, Humphrey, 74, 90
Bond, Ray, 158, 272
Book-of-the-Month Club, 71, 309, 318, 321, 342
Boucher, Anthony, 76–77, 86, 88, 89, 113, 114, 118–19, 121, 124, 128, 131, 151, 183, 188, 198, 202, 218, 245, 251, 286, 362, 367
death of, 280
as EM’s booster, 86, 106–7, 129, 172, 238
Bouchercon, 362, 415
Bowen, Elizabeth, 12, 275, 334
Bowers, Edgar, 254
Bowling Green University, 322, 324
Boys, Dick, 136, 138
Boys and Girls Together (Goldman), 260
Brackett, Leigh, 74
Bradbury, Ray, 288–89, 290, 412
Braham, Hal (Mel Colton), 130–31
Brand, Max, 186
Branson, Anna, 58–61, 63–64, 97, 98, 100, 103, 104, 105, 141, 152, 155, 227, 230, 231, 238, 256, 257, 269, 275, 313
Branson, Annie, 105, 257
Branson, Henry Clay, 58–59, 86, 90, 92, 97, 98, 100, 103, 139, 141, 146, 152, 155, 227, 238, 244, 256, 275, 313
Brightwell, Robin, 315–16
Brodkey, Harold, 196
Brooks, Cleanth, 62, 231, 234, 299
Brooks, Peter, 324
Broun, Heywood, 289
Brown, Francis, 286
Brown, Fredric, 130
Brown, Russell M., 382–83, 384
Browne, Francis Fisher, 83
Browne, Pat, 342–44
Browne, Ray B., 342–44, 404
Broyard, Anatole, 367
KM’s books panned by, 341–42, 371
MM’s book praised by, 365, 377
Brubacher, Sheldon, 29
Bruccoli, Matthew J., 280, 288, 296, 313, 320, 327, 335, 342, 347, 354, 355, 356, 359, 411
Brundage, Avery, 118
Buchan, John, 48, 66, 233
Buckley, William E, Jr., 135
Burns, Robert, 26, 180
Byrd, Max, 324–25
Cagney, Jimmy, 264
Cain, James, 70, 87, 88, 89, 90, 113, 119, 142, 354, 358
California, 15, 30, 83, 149, 155, 298, 334, 358
in Chandler’s novels, 67, 70, 93
in Harper, 264
KM’s family in, 70–72
in KM’s novels, 8, 11, 12, 13, 54, 93–94, 110–12, 114, 123, 149, 150, 181, 215, 237, 285, 287, 308, 412, 413
California, University of, at Davis, 183, 184, 185, 203–4, 206–7
California, University of, at Irvine, 291
Kenneth and Margaret Millar Collection at, 12–13, 274
Regents’ Lectureship of, 280
California, University of, at Los Angeles (UCLA), 101
California, University of, at Santa Barbara (UCSB), 95, 115, 116, 175, 186, 191, 198–99
campus unrest at,
293–94
California condor, 240–42, 281
California State University at Los Angeles, 254
Calisher, Hortense, 367
Callaghan, Morley, 36, 48–49, 92
Cameron, Rod, 150
Camus, Albert, 196, 197
Canadian Boy, 49
Canadian Echo, 21, 23
Canadian Girl, 49
Canadians, 380–84
as writers, 381–84, 410
Canby, Vincent, 361
Caniff, Milt, 138
Cannibal Heart, The (M. Millar), 96, 120
Capers, Charlotte, 333
Capote, Truman, 280
Capra Press, 187
Carlisle, Kitty, 114
Carr, John Dickson (Carter Dickson), 116, 197
Carroll, Gordon, 246
Carroll, Jon, 321–22
Carter, Eddie, 213–14
Carter, Steven, 273, 301, 313, 363
Cassell, 147
Castle, The (Kafka), 53
Catalogue of Crime, A (Barzun and Taylor), 308
Catholic World, 318
Catullus, 216
Cavett, Dick, 291, 309
Cawelti. John, 347
CBC, 381, 410
CBS, 197, 201
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 242, 243, 273
Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 342
Cerf, Bennett, 65, 95, 96, 114, 219, 265
Champion Breed, The (Stump), 226
Champlin, Charles, 289, 356, 403, 410
Chandler, Raymond, 8, 11, 12, 47, 50, 54, 56, 67, 70, 71, 73, 77, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92–93, 94, 99, 107–8, 110, 111, 112–13, 114, 119, 125, 128, 130, 131, 133–34, 136, 139, 146, 147, 148, 151, 152, 167, 181, 183, 190, 231, 236, 237, 266, 275, 280, 287, 327, 358, 366, 412
as critical of KM, 198, 229, 251, 272, 334, 335, 349–50, 374
death of, 201
KM’s blurb for paperbacks of, 321
KM’s work compared with, 250–51, 252, 259, 318, 411
Charyn, Jerome, 11
Chatto and Windus, 230
Chekhov, Anton, 48
Chesterton, G. K., 30
Chicago Sun, 69, 89, 97
Chicago Sun Times, 107, 119, 373
Chicago Tribune, 342
Chicago Tribune Book World, 370
Chinatown, 356, 365
“Christabel” (Coleridge), 36, 41, 231, 349
Christian Science, 17
Christie, Agatha, 30, 198, 218, 354, 411
Chums, 24
Citizens Commission on Civil Disorders (Santa Barbara), 294, 295, 297
City Detective, 150
Clark, Mary Higgins, 386
Clemons, Walter, 286, 293, 303, 309, 310, 333, 366, 370
Cliff View Terrace, 409
Climax, 158
Clymer, Ted, 345, 359
Coady, Matthew, 315, 316
Cobb, Ty, 225–26
Cocaine and Blue Eyes (Zackel), 370
Cohen, Leonard, 383
Cohen, Mickey, 122
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 13, 15, 36, 56, 103, 125, 231–35, 275, 409
College Cord, 36
Collier, John, 74
Collier’s, 226
Collins, 218, 261, 313, 315
Collins, Lady, 316
Collins, Michael, see Lynds, Dennis
Collins, Sir William, 313, 315, 316, 376
Collins, Wilkie, 11, 110, 398, 411
Colman, Ronald, 117–18
Columbia University Press, 224
Comfort, Alex, 243
Commentary, 318
Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP), 336
Condon, Eddie, 82
Congdon, Tom, 367
Congressional Record, 241
Conrad, Barnaby, 96, 243, 345, 360
Conrad, Joseph, 190
Considine, Bob, 226
Cook, Bruce, 290, 318
Cooper, Jackie, 356
Cooper-Clark, Diana, 400–401
Coral Casino Beach Club, 96–97, 117, 149, 157, 200, 248, 271, 276–77, 282, 343, 349, 378, 379, 403, 415
KM’s acquisition of cabana at, 358
Cornell University, 42, 45
Cosmopolitan, 132, 142–44, 158, 217, 219, 228, 242, 245, 255, 298
Coulette, Henri (Hank), 254–55, 270, 271, 326–27, 345, 356, 359
Coulette, Jackie, 254, 270, 271, 307, 326–27, 358
Coward, Noël, 37
Coxe, George Harmon, 99, 256
Crack-up, The (Fitzgerald), 104
Crane, Stephen, 89
Cranston, Alan, 283
Creasey, John, 236
Crichton, Michael, 290, 325
crime fiction, see detective fiction
Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books (1987), 372
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky), 30
Crime Writers Association (CWA), British, awards given by, see Gold Dagger Award; Silver Dagger Award
Crist, Judith, 266
Cuppy, Will, 57
Current Biography, 146
Curtiz, Mike, 90
“Dagger of the Mind” (Sandoe), 73
Daily Variety, 360, 410
Dante Alighieri, 53–54
Darrach, Brad, 115, 276–77, 350–52, 379
David, Saul, 144–47, 151–52, 157, 182, 196–97, 255
Davie, Donald, 12, 186–86, 191, 195, 197–99, 223–24, 313, 382, 388, 389, 412, 415
Davie, Doreen, 186
Davies, Robertson, 56, 309–10, 368, 381–82, 383
Davis, Bette, 73, 90, 298
Day-Lewis, Cecil, 54
Deighton, Len, 255
Delacorte, 297
Dell, 119, 197
Dell, Floyd, 289
Democratic party, 135, 136, 270, 275, 283
Depression, Great, 28, 31, 34, 50
Detective Book Club, 218, 369
detective fiction, 8, 11, 14, 30
academic snobbery toward, 54, 121, 186, 188, 199, 200, 223, 230, 324
Auden as fan of, 53–54, 59, 67, 116
Canadian, 410
on film, 263; see also specific films
as framework for writing about society’s problems, 109–10
hard-boiled, see Chandler, Raymond; Hammett, Dashiell
KM’s influence on, 11, 234, 280, 320, 413–14
literary history of, 138–40
market trends in, 255
popularity of, 51, 119, 386
private eyes in, seen as passé, 255, 356
publishers’ blockbuster mentality and, 386, 398–99
publishers’ lines of, 51, 52, 119
publishers’ pricing of, 189, 218, 318
purpose of, 139, 237–38
as serious literature, 136–37, 142, 182–83, 189–90, 255–56, 259, 290, 324, 335, 391, 411–12, 414
on television, 213–14, 246, 265, 267–69, 353–56, 359–60
Detective Fiction: Crime and Compromise
(Allen and Chacko), 347
Detective Fiction Weekly, 51
Detroit News, 410
Dewey, Thomas B., 131, 239
Dick Cavett Show, 291
Dickens, Charles, 11, 24, 27, 139, 275, 402, 411
Didion, Joan, 11, 298, 334, 360
Diehl, Digby, 289
Disneyland, 161
Divine Comedy, The (Dante), 53–54
Dodd, Mead, 51, 67, 69, 70, 86, 87, 89, 92, 99, 119, 158, 190, 272, 280, 291
Dodd, Tommy, 89
Do Evil in Return (M. Millar), 141
Dolbier, Maurice, 219, 367
Don’t Shoot—We Are Your Children! (Lukas), 308
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 13, 30, 139, 397
Doubleday, 51, 52, 65, 99, 102
Double Indemnity (Cain), 70
Double Indemnity (film), 70
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 337
Downey, Bill, 344
Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go (Durham), 251
Doxiades, Constantin, 191
Doyle, Sir Ar
thur Conan, 21, 30, 138, 256
Dragnet, 131, 132
Dreiser, Theodore, 220
Dresser, Davis (Brett Halliday), 253
Drowning Pool, The (film), 347, 356
KM as critical of, 361–62
KM’s financial deal for, 356, 384
reviews of, 359, 361
Duke University Press, 230
Dunham, B. Mabel, 29–30
Durham, Philip, 251
Dutton, 256
Dwan, Allan, 90
Dystel, Oscar, 172–73, 196–97, 307
Earth Day, 284
Eastlake, William, 346
East of Midnight (Rosaire), 90
Easton, Jane, 185–86
Easton, Robert, 185–86, 197, 213, 230, 240–41, 242, 243, 249, 252–53, 262, 276, 283–84, 297, 321, 337, 344, 362, 396, 402, 403, 409, 415
Eco, Umberto, 411
Ed, Uncle, 25, 26, 45, 192, 194
Edgar Allan Poe Award (Edgar), 107, 130, 167, 236, 238–39, 252, 255, 256, 280, 413
KM and, 236, 239, 267, 325–26
MM and, 167, 239, 326, 354–55
Edinburgh Scotsman, 316
“Edward and Pia” (Barthelme), 259
Edward VIII, King of England, 38
Einstein, Albert, 69
Eisenhower, Dwight, 136, 155
El Cielito, see writers’ lunch at Harry’s (Josie’s) El Cielito
Eliot, T. S., 36, 48
Ellerbe, Paul, 149
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 76–77, 97, 107, 151, 398
Ellington, Duke, 85, 86, 245
Ellroy, James, 11, 414
Engel, Howard, 410
English spy thrillers, popularity of, 255
Esquire, 36, 49, 92, 144, 226, 321–22, 327
Essex House, 354–55
Estleman, Loren D., 191
“Eudora Welty Celebration” of Mississippi Arts Festival, 337–40
Explorer, 49
Eye of the Story, The: Selected Essays and Reviews (Welty), 388
Faber and Faber, 257
Fadiman, Clifton, 345
Fall, The (Camus), 197
Farewell My Lovely (Chandler), 51, 70, 124, 139
Fat City (L. Gardner), 297
Faulkner, William, 11, 32, 65, 74, 76, 98, 138, 139, 201, 236, 303
Fawcett, 226
Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard), 301
Fearing, Kenneth, 124
Fearn, Mike, 316
Feikema, Feike, 98
Ferry, Jo, 248
Ferry, Wilbur H. “Ping,” 242–43, 248, 275, 283, 293, 299, 342, 357, 362, 363, 372, 376
Field, Benny, 82
Fiend, The (M. Millar), 245, 246, 252
Fifth Business (Davies), 309–10, 382, 383
KM on, 310
film noir, 102
Filmways, 309, 312–13, 319, 353
Finlandia (Sibelius), 103
First Circle, The (Solzhenitsyn), 319
Fitzgerald, Barry, 117
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 36, 65, 92, 95, 98, 104, 200, 345, 355, 394