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popularity of, 73, 197, 326–27
publishers of, 52, 65, 66, 70, 71, 73, 95, 173
reviews of, 57, 65, 68, 71, 76, 131, 183, 202, 245, 247
teleplays, 149–50
see also specific titles
Millar, Rob, 20–22, 28
Miller, Max, 70, 107
Miller, Nolan, 98, 313, 316, 385
Miller, Wade, 130, 131
Mills, James G., 410
Milton, John (editor), 399
Milton, John (poet), 124
Mission: Impossible, 353
Monroe, Marilyn, 75
Montecito, Calif., 110, 200
Montreal Star, 251, 410
Moon-Calf (Dell), 289
Moore, Richard, 379–80, 384, 388, 396, 398
Morris, Wright, 280, 406
Mosley, Walter, 11
Moyer, Aaron (grandfather), 19
Moyer, Edwin (uncle), 23, 27
Moyer, Stanley (uncle), 27, 29, 49, 155
Moyer, Veronica Bowman (grandmother), 19–20, 27, 30
Mudrick, Marvin, 191, 196, 199
Muir, John, 177
Muller, Marcia, 413
Munro, Alice, 382
Murakami, Haruki, 412
Murder, My Sweet, 70
“Murder and the Mean Streets: The Hard-Boiled Detective Novel” (Grella), 298
Murder Ink (Winn), 386
Murder of Miranda, The (M. Millar), 388, 391
Muskie, Ed, 283
Musselman, M. M., 95, 141, 157
Mutual Life, 23, 34
My Life in Baseball: The True Record (Cobb and Stump), 225
mysteries, see detective fiction
Mysterious Press, 369
Mystery, 215
Mystery Guild book club, 102, 108, 142, 144, 309
“Mystery of the Silver Dagger” (Parrish), 21
Mystery Writers’ Annual (1964), 326
Mystery Writers of America, 76, 92, 107, 119, 124, 130, 138, 158, 167, 183, 201, 219, 236, 238, 252, 253, 280, 386
awards of, see Edgar Allan Poe Award; Grandmaster Award
KM as president of, 252, 255–57, 258, 325
MM as president of, 183
Nabokov, Vladimir, 289, 290
Nasatir, Marcia, 255, 260
Nash, Ogden, 48
Nash, Roderick, 284
National Audubon Society, 241
National Book Critics Circle, 367
National Observer, 252, 275, 290, 305, 341, 373, 379
National Review, 403
NBC-TV, 298, 355, 359–60
Negulesco, Jean, 114
Nelson, Paul, 228, 277, 292–93, 300–301, 373–76, 398, 410
Neon Jungle, The (J. MacDonald), 144
Never Come Morning (Algren), 85, 89
Newman, Paul, 259, 269
and Chill project, 273
as Lew Harper (Archer), 260–61, 263–64, 356, 361
New Republic, 54, 69, 86, 342, 359, 390
News & Review, 410
Newsweek, 11, 148, 151, 234, 285, 340–41, 370, 385
KM as cover story in, 305–8
New York, 279
New York City, 81–82, 218–19, 257
“I Love a Mystery Week,” in, 385–86
New Yorker, 41, 49, 57, 65, 89, 95, 97, 101, 202, 215, 219, 236, 259, 361, 370, 382
New York Herald Tribune, 57, 98, 124, 172, 201, 218, 219, 266
New York Post, 219, 237, 238, 257
New York Review of Books, 309
New York Times, 69, 73, 76, 101, 107, 121, 150, 202, 241, 245, 267, 279–80, 283, 304, 312, 341–42, 361, 365, 367, 371, 372, 377, 410
best-seller list of, 290–91, 297, 308, 309, 342
op-ed page of, 298, 336
TV reviews of, 359, 360
New York Times Book Review, 11, 68, 73, 97, 106, 113, 173, 218, 251, 282, 293, 298, 339, 341, 342, 372, 385, 391
KM as featured on front page of, 285–88, 303, 306, 411
KM’s reviews for, 308, 321
New York Times Magazine, 284, 349
Nicholson, Jack, 356
“Nightmare Town” (Hammett), 85
Nine Stories (Salinger), 178
Nixon, Richard, 275, 283, 337
“November Joe: The Detective of the Woods” (Prichard), 21
Oakes, Philip, 316
Oakie, Jack, 114
Oates, Joyce Carol, 231, 342, 412
Ober, Harold, 65, 109, 143
Observer (London), 320
O’Connor, John J., 359
Offord, Umore Glen, 124, 150, 188
O’Hearn, Walter, 251
Olding, Dorothy, 177–78, 217–18, 219, 227, 230, 236, 241, 242, 245, 246–47, 251, 252, 253, 255, 261–62, 272, 275, 279, 290, 292, 297, 298, 299, 303, 305, 307, 309, 313, 316, 321, 326, 354, 357, 370, 389, 390, 391, 392, 396, 399, 409
KM’s letter to, after Linda’s death, 300
on KM’s writing, 217
Oliver Twist (Dickens), 24, 27, 402
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn), 319
O’Neill, Eugene, 36
Ong, Walter, 191
Ontario College of Education, 45, 47
Onward, 49
Opinión, La, 320
Optimist’s Daughter (Welty), 340
Originals, The: The Writer in America (TV series), 384, 387
Orwell, George, 319
Oxford University Press, 230
Packard, Frank L., 25
Palmer, Stuart, 130
Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915), 15
paperback publisher, see Bantam Books; Pocket Books
Paramount, 246, 353, 356, 360
Paretsky, Sara, 11, 413
Parker, Charlie, 85
Parker, Dorothy, 11, 254
Parker, Fess, 270
Parker, Helen B., 97
Parker, Robert Brown, 298, 414
Parmenides, 233
Parrish, Randall, 21
Pasternak, Boris, 361
Paul, Elliot, 74, 75–76
Pauling, Linus, 243
PBS, 320, 384, 388
Peanuts, 410
Pearce, Donald Ross, 39–41, 42, 43, 44, 45–46, 50, 53, 54, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 86, 97, 98, 102, 103–5, 119, 121, 124–26, 136, 138, 140, 141–42, 148, 155, 175, 178–79, 183, 185, 186–87, 191, 192, 198, 201, 203–4, 206–7, 224, 231, 234, 247–48, 380, 412
KM’s dissolution of friendship with, 226–27
Pearson, Edmund, 239
Peck, Edwin C., Jr., 392
Peckinpah, Sam, 297–98
Penzler, Otto, 234, 368–69, 398
People, 276, 350, 353, 355
Pepper, Jim, 399
Perelman, S.J., 303
KM and MM joint interview lampooned by, 219, 306
Perrault, Charles, 329
Perry Mason, 218
Peters, Ellis, 239
Phaedrus (Plato), 231
Phelp, Cyril, 33
Phelps, Betty, 397, 413
Phelps, Robert, 241–42, 283
Philadelphia Inquirer, 89
Pidgeon, Larry, 344–45
Pinecrest, 393, 409–10
Pinker, Ray, 131, 165, 171
Pinkerton, William A., 21
Pirandello, Luigi, 36, 142
Plato, 231
Playboy, 342
Pocket Books, 108, 119, 129, 133, 134, 135, 142, 144, 145, 146, 158, 197, 202, 261, 267
Poe, Edgar Allan, 11, 13, 51, 137, 138, 139, 152
Ponder Heart, The (Welty), 338
Popular Culture Association, KM’s Merit Award from, 342, 347–49
Powell, Dick, 70, 356
Powers, James, 266
Prescott, Peter S., 340–41
Presses de la Cité, Les, 147
Preston, Peter, 316
Price, Reynolds, 12, 280, 334, 338, 339–40, 405–6, 415
Prichard, Hesketh, 21
Pricking Thumb, The (Branson), 58
Priestley, J. B., 274
Princeton University
, 69
Private Eye Writers of America, 152
Life Achievement Award (“The Eye”) of, 411
Pronzini, Bill, 152
Proust, Marcel, 98
Pry, Elmer R., 370
Publishers Weekly, 238, 290, 291, 307, 309, 310, 321, 343, 387, 413
Purity of Dktim in English Verse (Davie), 197
Pursuit, 197, 201
Queen, 267
Queen, Ellery, 51, 198, 354
Quiz Kids (radio show), 400
Rabelais, François, 32
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, 63
Radin, Edward D., 239
Random House, 65, 66, 70, 71, 73, 84, 86, 95, 96, 98, 99, 167, 213, 219, 292, 297, 310, 313, 368, 382
Ransohoff, Marty, 309, 310, 312
Rascoe, Judith, 305
“Raymond Chandler, and the Future of Whodunits” (Russell), 73
Raymond Chandler Speaking, 229
Reagan, Ronald, 294, 337
Really the Blues (Mezzrow), 84
Red Harvest (Hammett), 85
Reeve, Arthur B., 21
Rendell, Ruth, 400, 411
Republic Studios, 150
Requiem (Berlioz), 103
Revue, 149–50
Rexroth, Kenneth, 192, 196
Rice, Craig, 305
Rich, Lee, 265
Richler, Mordecai, 381, 383
Ridley, Clifford A., 252, 275, 305–6, 341, 379, 410
Rimbaud, Arthur, 53
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The” (Coleridge), 15, 231, 385, 409
Ring, Jeff, 313, 354, 357, 360
Roberts, Thomas J., 234, 412
Robeson, Paul, 61
Rolling Stone, 308, 334, 390, 410
KM interviewed for, 373–76
Rosaire, Forrest, 90
Rosenberg, Lee, 303, 309
Rose’s Last Summer (M. Millar), 131, 206
Ross, John D., 175
Routledge, 223–24, 230
Royal Air Force, 50
Royal Shakespeare Company, 389
Ruehlmann, William, 277–29, 295, 310, 316, 336–37, 338, 353, 404, 409, 410
Russell, Diarmuid, 73, 338
Sacks, Sheldon, 348
Saint with a Gun: The Unlawful American Private Eye (Ruehlmann), 357
Sale, Roger, 237
Salinger, J. D., 177, 277
Salisbury, Harrison, 242, 298
Salisbury Plain (Branson), 256
Sanctuary (Faulkner), 139, 201
Sanders of the River (Wallace), 24
Sandoe, James, 73, 89, 97, 107–8, 119, 124, 131, 156, 172, 188, 198, 201–2, 219, 229, 236, 335
San Francisco Chronicle, 76, 89, 124, 150, 188, 192, 196, 198, 202, 203, 206, 217, 241, 252, 304, 305, 365, 368, 398
“Santa Barbara” (Browne), 83
Santa Barbara, Calif, 85–86, 94, 95–96, 117–18, 165, 171, 185, 190–91, 200
MM’s purchase of home in, 71–72, 83–84
‘new money’ of, 357
off-shore oil spill at, 282–84, 286
Santa Barbara Citizens for Environmental Defense, 284
Santa Barbara City College, 293, 410–11
Santa Barbara News-Press, 96, 118, 131, 164, 165, 172, 175, 197, 204, 244, 270, 275, 294, 320, 344–45, 410
Santa Barbara Star, 166, 171, 175
Santa Barbara Writers Conference, 360–61, 369–70, 399
KM’s manuscript critique at, 370
Saroyan, William, 345–46
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 142
Saturday Evening Post, 116, 197, 226, 345
Saturday Night, 47, 49, 50, 56, 309
Saturday Review of Literature, 57, 69, 73, 89, 95, 97, 121, 188–89
Savage God, The (Alvarez), 320
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 157
“Scene of the Crime, The: Social Meanings of the Detective Story” (lecture), 138–40
Schaefer, Jack, 345
Scheur, Philip K., 266
Schickel, Richard, 318
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 34
Schulz, Charles, 410
Screen Gems, 201
Scribner’s, 57
Seagraves, John, 370
Seaver, Richard, 367
Second International Congress of Crime Writers (1978), 385–87
See, Carolyn, 237
Seed, Harris, 115, 135, 136, 148, 165, 169–70, 173, 176, 186, 228, 280, 373
in Hollywood negotiations for KM, 265–68, 269, 309, 310, 312–13
Seed, Nancy, 135, 136, 148
Segal, George, 265
Seidenbaum, Art, 308
Semple, Lorenzo, 347
Serenade (Cain), 90
Série Noire, 119
Seven Arts Productions, 265–66
Shah, Diane K., 385
Shakespeare, William, 53, 126, 256
Shalit, Gene, 298
Shane, 345
Sharon Tate murders, 291
Shaw, Artie, 345
Sheed, Wilfrid, 367
Shelley, Mary, 232
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 29, 46
Shipley Bay, USS, 70, 71, 74, 75, 76, 78, 80, 81, 84, 86, 113, 142
Shoemaker, Dorothy, 312
Show, 246, 250
Sibelius, Jean, 103
Sierra Club, 241
Silver Dagger Award, KM as recipient of, 252, 256, 326
Simenon, Georges, 196, 275, 342, 354
Simon, Roger, 334–36, 344, 354
Simon & Schuster, 51, 86
Simple Art of Murder (Chandler), 152
Sinatra, Frank, 260
Siodmak, Kurt, 74
Sipper, Carol, 406
Sipper, Ralph, 313, 335, 342, 345, 359, 362, 402, 403, 406, 407, 409
Six-Day War, 322
Skow, John, 341
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut), 287–88, 290
Slayman, Bob, 206, 208
Sleeping Beauty (Macdonald), 11, 177, 328–34, 383
as best-seller, 341, 342
fairy-tale motif of, 329–32
nature turned upside down in, 329–30
printings of, 357
radio adaptation of, 414
sales of, 342, 382
Slopen, Beverly, 384
slot machines, 26, 30, 31
Smight, Jack, 264, 273
Smith, Cecil, 353, 360
Smith, Dick, 410
Smith, John E., 149, 160, 175, 273–74, 291, 295, 300
Snyder family farm, 34
Socrates, 53, 323
Sokolov, Ray, 310, 366
KM’s Newsweek cover story by, 305–6, 326
with Leonard in Macdonald “literary conspiracy,” 285–88, 305–6
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 319
Somebody Up There Likes Me, 259
Sophocles, 12
Soriano, Osvaldo, 12, 320
South Dakota Review, 399
Southern Review, 62, 299
Speir, Jerry, 387
Spicer, Bart, 131, 197
Spillane, Mickey, 13, 89, 128, 129, 131, 134, 136, 139, 142, 144, 145, 387
Split Woman, The, see Ivory Grin, The
Spock, Benjamin, 50, 276
Sports Illustrated, 241, 284
Sproul, Kathleen, 121
spy thrillers, English, popularity of, 255
Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The (le Carré), 255, 325
Stark, Ray, 297
Stegner, Wallace, 334, 406
Stein, Gertrude, 48
Stevenson, Adlai, 135, 136, 178, 323
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 137, 154–55
Stiling, Frank, 36, 155
St. John’s College School, 25–27
Stompanato, Johnny, 209
Storke, Tom, 86, 200
Stout, Rex, 51, 92, 196, 198, 201, 256, 288, 354, 411
Straight Arrow, 334
Stranger in My Grave, A (M. Millar), 218–19
Stranger Is Watching, A (Clark), 386
Strange Stories, 49
Stravinsky, Igor, 375, 393
/> Strindberg, August, 36
Studio One, 152
Studs Lonigan (Farrell), 149
Stump, Al, 110, 116–18, 136, 149, 160, 209–10, 217, 225–26, 282
Stump, Claire, 136, 169, 199, 226
Sturm, Henry, 30, 31, 155, 219, 368, 384, 396, 415
Sturm, Ross (brother-in-law), 127
Styron, William, 340
Sullivan, Joe, 82
Sunday Times Magazine (London), 316, 387, 410
“Best Crime Stories” list of, 198
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Leacock), 382
Swander, Homer, 191
Swanson, H. N., 73, 75, 88, 90, 92, 132, 149, 213, 217, 218, 245–47, 259, 264, 265–67
KM’s relationship with, 213, 217
Sweet, Jeff, 337
Symons, Julian, 147, 197, 198, 236, 256–57, 313, 314, 317, 335, 338, 339, 350, 353, 358, 378, 383, 387, 392, 397, 400, 403, 410, 411
Blue Hammer praised by, 372–73
as Crime Writers’ Congress organizer, 386
KM in BBC interview with, 315–16
Symons, Kathleen, 314
Symons, Sarah, 314, 376
Talese, Gay, 327
Taylor, Isabelle, 52, 65
Teachout, Terry, 403
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 126
Temple, Willard, 149, 345
Tenney, Stanley, 148
Thin Man, The (film), 52
Thin Man, The (Hammett), 53, 93, 108
Thirty-Nine Steps, The (Buchan), 48, 66
Thomas, Vern, 164, 169
Thompson, Fred, 353
Thorpe, C. D., 98, 106, 115, 119, 136–37
Time, 148, 151, 237, 290, 305, 309, 341
Times (London), 315, 410
Times Literary Supplement (London), 147, 198, 372
Today, 298, 405
Today’s Poets (Walsh), 53
Torn, Rip, 201
Toronto, University of, 44
Toronto Globe and Mail, 410
Toronto Star, 65, 368, 410
Towne, Robert, 356
Townsend, Irving, 345
Trip to Bountiful, 324
Triste, solitario y final (Soriano), 320
Trouble Is My Business (Chandler), 181
True, 225–26
Turow, Scott, 411
Tutunjian, Jerry, 178, 322, 382, 397
TV Guide, 150, 327
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 39
Twentieth Century-Fox, 114, 246, 356
UCLA Medical Center, 211, 213
Udall, Stewart, 283
“Underground Bye-bye, The” (Macdonald parody), 308
Underground Man, The (Macdonald), 11, 296–97, 299, 301, 304, 309, 318–19, 326, 331, 333, 341, 342, 374, 383, 413
as best-seller, 308–9, 310
British publication of, 313–17
condensation of, 298
critical backlash against, 318
fan mail for, 319–20
films and, 310, 312
reviews of, 302–5, 307, 318, 324, 333
theme of, 357
as TV movie, 353–54, 355
Unicorn Mystery Book Club, 71
Union Oil, 282–84
United Church of Canada magazines, 49, 92