Chang's experiments in crime fiction is related to this shift, since the stories revolve around solving a mystery or crime, and despite the fact that the protagonist is Korean American, the debt here is more to crime and noir writers like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald.
This novel (the first in a series of eighteen) would become the basis for the 1966 Paul Newman film Harper.
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Capra Press was a Santa Barbara, California-based independent publishing house which has produced works by authors such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, Gretel Ehrlich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lawrence Clark Powell, Charles Bukowski, Michael Petracca, Tony Mendoza, Barry Gifford, José Antonio Burciaga, Ross Macdonald, and Twinka Thiebaud, who collected Henry Miller's table talk.
Deadly Companion (aka Double Negative) is a 1980 Canadian mystery film based on the novel The Three Roads by Ross Macdonald.
It evokes both the milieu and style of other mystery writers Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Ross Macdonald, all of whom Bradbury names in the book's dedication, and James Crumley, after whom Bradbury named his detective.
Born into a musical household in Millicent, Australia, David Ross MacDonald says of his childhood, “There were always instruments to muck around with at home. I played piano as a kid and took some classical guitar lessons as a teenager.”
He has edited authors and illustrators including Ed Young, Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Ted Lewin, Rebecca and Ed Emberley, Amy Tan, Philip and Erin Stead, Chitra Divakaruni, Nick Bruel, Wendell Minor, Ross MacDonald, Doris Orgel and Matt Davies.
The Ross Macdonald Literary Award is a U.S. book prize given each year by the Santa Barbara Book Council to "a California writer whose work raises the standard of literary excellence."