Ross Macdonald

The Drowning Pool is a 1950 mystery novel written by Ross Macdonald, his second book in the series revolving around the cases of private detective Lew Archer.

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 …