A selection of magazine and newspaper articles by Ross Macdonald:

  • 'The South Sea Soup Co.' (Ken Miller). The Grumbler (1931), pp. 23-25. Parody; first appearance in print.
  • 'Fatal Facility'. (Kenneth Millar). (Toronto) Saturday Night, 29 July 1939, p. 20. Poem; first professional publication.
  • 'Homage to Dashiell Hammett' (Ross Macdonald). Mystery Writer's Annual, 1964, pp. 8, 24.
  • 'A Death Road for the Condor'(Ross Macdonald).Sports Illustrated, 6 April 1964, pp. 86-89.
  • 'The Writer as Detective Hero' (Ross Macdonald). Show, January 1965, pp. 34-36.
  • 'Murder in The Library' (Kenneth Millar). Mystery Writer's Annual, 1965, pp. 2.
  • 'Cain x3'(Ross Macdonald). New York Times Book Review, 2 March 1969, pp. 1, 49-51. Book review.
  • ' Life with the Blob' (Ross Macdonald).Sports Illustrated, 21 April 1969, pp. 52, 57-60.
  • 'Santa Barbara Cite an 11th Commandment: 'Thou Shalt Not Abuse the Earth'' (Ross Macdonald and Robert Easton). New York Times Magazine, 12 October 1969, pp. 32-33, 142-149, 151, 156.
  • 'Down These Streets a Mean Man Must Go' (Ross Macdonald). Antaeus, 25-26 Spring/Summer 1977, pp. 211-216.
  • 'The Private Detective' (Ross Macdonald). New York Times Book Review, 23 October 1977, pp. 2, 40-41. Introduction to Lew Archer, Private Detective.

A selection of articles by Ross Macdonald first appearing in books:

  • 'A Preface to The Galton Case.' In Afterwords: Novelists on their Novels. Edited by Thomas McCormack. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
  • 'Introduction.' In Matthew J. Bruccoli, Kenneth Millar/Ross Macdonald: A Checklist. Detroit: Gale Research/Bruccoli Clark, 1971.
  • 'Introduction.' In Robert Easton, Black Tide. New York: Delacorte Press, 1972.

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