Novels to the front rank of American letters. In 1969, when most literate readers thought detective stories beneath consideration and mystery fiction rarely appeared on best-seller lists, a handful of New York journalists conspired to push a California writer of private-eye William Goldman, The New York Times Book Review the Archer books, the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American. John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review Ten years ago, while nobody was watching-or, rather, while everyone was looking in the wrong direction-a writer of detective stories turned into a major American novelist.
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