About the Lew Archer Series Paperback Novel Volume 1 The Archer Files

In honor of Ross Macdonald's 100th birthday, Vintage presents a new trade paperback and eBook edition of The Archer Files: All of the Lew Archer stories ever published, plus "case notes" comprised of deleted scenes and fragments of stories. Includes an introduction by editor Tom Nolan and new material exclusive to the Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition. VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD.
During his prolific career, Ross Macdonald wrote 18 novels and a dozen short stories starring sardonic private eye Lew Archer. The Archer Files collects all twelve stories, originally published in The Name Is Archer (1955), Lew Archer: Private Investigator (1977), and Strangers in Town (2001), plus thirteen fragments of unfinished stories. Macdonald biographer and Archer Files editor Tom Nolan introduces the collection with "Archer in Memory", a fascinatingly detailed biographical essay about Lew Archer.