RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: Ross Macdonald

* indicates Lew Archer.

Books

• The Dark Tunnel (Dodd, Mead, 1944) (as Kenneth Millar) (a.k.a I Die Slowly)
• Trouble Follows Me (Dodd, Mead, 1946) (as Kenneth Millar) (a.k.a. Night Train)
• Blue City (Knopf, 1947) (as Kenneth Millar)
• The Three Roads (Knopf, 1948) (as Kenneth Millar)
• The Moving Target* (Knopf, 1949) (as John Macdonald)
• The Drowning Pool* (Knopf, 1950) (as John Ross Macdonald)
• The Way Some People Die* (Knopf, 1951) (as John Ross Macdonald)
• The Ivory Grin* (Knopf, 1952) (as John Ross Macdonald) (a.k.a. Marked for Murder)
• Meet Me at the Morgue (Knopf, 1953) (as John Ross Macdonald)
• Find a Victim* (Knopf, 1954) (as John Ross Macdonald)
• The Name is Archer* (Bantam, 1955) (as John Ross Macdonald)
  • "Find the Woman"
  • "Gone Girl"
  • "The Bearded Lady"
  • "The Suicide"
  • "Guilt-Edged Blonde"
  • "The Sinister Habit"
  • "Wild Goose Chase"
• The Barbarous Coast* (Knopf, 1956)
• The Doomsters* (Knopf, 1958)
• The Galton Case* (Knopf, 1959)
• The Ferguson Affair (Knopf, 1960)
• The Wycherly Woman* (Knopf, 1961)
• The Zebra-Striped Hearse* (Knopf, 1962)
• The Chill* (Knopf, 1964)
• The Far Side of the Dollar* (Knopf, 1965)
• Black Money* (Knopf, 1966)
• Archer in Hollywood* (Knopf, 1967)
  • The Moving Target
  • The Way Some People Die
  • The Barbarous Coast
• The Instant Enemy* (Knopf, 1968)
• The Goodbye Look* (Knopf, 1969)
• Archer at Large* (Knopf, 1970)
  • The Galton Case
  • The Chill
  • Black Money
• The Underground Man* (Knopf, 1971)
• Sleeping Beauty* (Knopf, 1973)
• On Crime Writing (Capra Press, 1973)
  • "The Writer as Detective Hero"
  • "Writing The Galton Case"
• Great Stories of Suspense (Knopf, 1974) (editor)
• The Blue Hammer* (Knopf, 1976)
• Lew Archer, Private Investigator* (Mysterious Press, 1977)
  • All the stories from The Name is Archer
  • "Midnight Blue"
  • "The Sleeping Dog"
• A Collection of Reviews (Lord John Press, 1979) (book reviews)
• Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly Into the Past (Capra Press, 1981) (edited by Ralph B. Sipper) (articles)
• Archer in Jeopardy* (Knopf, 1979)
  • The Doomsters
  • The Zebra-Striped Hearse
  • The Instant Enemy
• Early Millar (Cordelia Editions, 1982) (with Margaret Millar)

Short Fiction

• "The South Sea Soup Co." (The Grumbler, 1931) (as Ken Miller)
• "Fatal Facility" (Saturday Night, 29 July 1939) (poem) (as Kenneth Millar)
• "Find the Woman" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1946) (as Kenneth Millar)
• "The Sky Hook" (American Mercury, January 1948) (as Kenneth Millar)
• "The Bearded Lady" (American Magazine, October 1948) (as Kenneth Millar)
• "Shock Treatment" (Manhunt, January 1953) (as Kenneth Millar)
• "The Imaginary Blonde" a.k.a. "Gone Girl" (Manhunt, February 1953) (as Kenneth Millar)
• "The Guilty Ones" a.k.a. "The Sinister Habit" (Manhunt, May 1953) (as John Ross Macdonald)
• "The Beat-Up Sister" a.k.a. "The Suicide" (Manhunt, October 1953) (as John Ross Macdonald)
• "Guilt-Edged Blonde" (Manhunt, January 1954) (as John Ross Macdonald)
• "Wild Goose Chase" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1954) (as John Ross Macdonald)
• "Midnight Blue" (Ed McBain's Mystery Magazine, October 1960)
• "The Sleeping Dog" (Argosy, April 1965)
• "Murder in the Library" (Mystery Writers' Annual, 1965) (as Kenneth Millar)

Short Nonfiction

• "Homage to Dashiell Hammett" (Mystery Writers' Annual, 1964)
• "A Death Road for the Condor" (Sports Illustrated, 6 April 1964)
• "The Writer as Detective Hero" (Show, January 1965)
• "Cain x 3" (New York Times Book Review, 2 March 1969)
• "Life with the Blob" (Sports Illustrated, 21 April 1969)
• "Santa Barbarans Cite an 11th Commandment: 'Thou Shalt Not Abuse the Earth'" (New York Times Magazine, 12 October 1969) (with Robert Easton)
• "Down These Streets a Mean Man Must Go" (Antaeus, #25-26, Spring/Summer 1977)
• "The Private Detective" (New York Times Book Review, 23 October 1977) (introduction to Lew Archer, Private Investigator)

Adaptations

• Harper (1966, from The Moving Target)
• The Drowing Pool (1975)
• Blue City (1988)
• Criminal Behavior (1992, from The Ferguson Affair)

References

• Wolfe, Peter. Dreamers Who Live Their Dreams: The World of Ross Macdonald's Novels (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1976)
• Bruccoli, Matthew J. Kenneth Millar/Ross Macdonald: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983)
• Bruccoli, Matthew J.Ross Macdonald (Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1984)
• Nolan, Tom. Ross MacDonald: A Biography (Scribner, 1999)
• Speir, Jerry. Ross Macdonald (New York: Ungar, 1978)