Four later novels
Black money ; The instant enemy ; The goodbye look ; The underground man
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Ross Macdonald sums up the themes that haunted him: the guilty secrets passed on within families, and the violence that can arise when those secrets refuse to remain buried. He extends his portrait of Southern California as a land of seeming abundance racked by hidden obsessions and simmering discontents.
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