Ross Macdonald

The Dark Tunnel is a 1944 spy thriller novel written by Kenneth Millar. For this novel, his debut, Millar used his real name -- he is generally better known as Ross Macdonald. University professor Robert Branch makes light of his best friend's suspicions that there is a Nazi spy in their sleepy, midwestern university …

Trouble Follows Me is a spy thriller written in 1946 by Kenneth Millar. For this novel, as with his other early work, Millar used his real name—he is generally better known as Ross Macdonald.

The Three Roads is a 1948 mystery novel written by Kenneth Millar. This was Millar's fourth novel, and the final one published using his real name -- he is generally better known by his later pseudonym Ross Macdonald. "For now I am discovered vile, and of the vile. O ye three roads, and thou concealed dell, and Oaken …

Blue City was a thriller written in 1947 by Ross Macdonald, originally released under his real name, Kenneth Millar. It was generally considered Macdonald's first truly hardboiled novel, a start along the road that was going to lead to many comparisons to Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.