Title: A Pleasure
Review: Reading Ross MacDonald is a voyage into the past. His work is evocative of bygone eras and landscapes, and even on initial publication there was something decidedly old-fashioned about the attitudes, manners, the morals, the entire approach to detective fiction. Nearly twenty years after his death, a lot of readers are going to find him so dated as to be inaccessible. So, also, are Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammet, Arthur Conan Doyle and yes, Jane Austen, another old-fashioned writer of novels of manners.The Chill isn't an action-packed thriller, it isn't laden with pyrotechnics, it doesn't feature dashing heroes saving the world, and Archer most definitely is not going to get the beautiful girl in the end. So what?Reading this this book is more like savoring fine wine from an old bottle. Enjoy the flavors of the past, the convergence of themes and the complexity to the last drop.
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