Meet Me at the Morgue

A boy from a wealthy family is kidnapped, and Howard Cross begins his own investigation. The police are convinced the family chauffeur is involved, but Cross--the chauffeur's probation officer--isn't so sure. The protagonist Howard Cross is almost Lew Archer but not quite, and therein lies the probl......more

Meet Me at the Morgue is a stand-alone novel from Ross MacDonald featuring Hugh Cross, a probation officer in Pacific Point, California. Published in 1953, it's set in the years following World War II, and most of the men in the novel, Cross included, are veterans of the war. Like many of MacDonald'......more

Macdonald's non Archer books are usually not worth it. Four out of six of them were written before Macdonald started writing his Archer books and they are amateurish attempts at noir best left forgotten. Meet Me at the Mourge written after the first four Archer books escapes this curse and is much b......more

I've said this before and I'll say it again. Before I discovered the mysteries of Ross Macdonald, I had been enjoying the works of his wife, Canadian mystery writer Margaret Millar. In the last few years I've tried MacDonald's Lew Archer books, excellent noir mysteries. Meet Me at the Morgue, writte......more

There is something about Ross Macdonald's books that makes them seem like a ballet done at high speed. Take Meet Me at the Morgue, for example. We have a kidnapping, two unidentified dead bodies (albeit several months apart), a number of highly suspect (yet attractive) females, and a mother's boy of......more