![]() ![]() Jim Thompson, the author of more than 30 novels including The Getaway and The Killer Inside Me, was largely ignored during his lifetime but he became the darling of critics and Hollywood producers within a decade of his death in 1977. Literary immortality is an unpredictable thing. And behind the humor, he had some serious things to say about a host of American institutions from organized religion to the press. That’s a damn shame because McDonald was a gifted storyteller who peopled his crisply-written, very funny mysteries with irresistibly quirky characters. A Google search turns up no recent chatter about his novels, and very little since his productive life as a writer came to an end in the late 1990s.Īside from occasional late-night cable screenings of Fletch, a 1985 Universal Pictures movie starring Chevy Chase, McDonald’s most intriguing character also seems to be fading from American popular culture. ![]() Gregory McDonald has been dead for less than three years, yet already he seems in danger of being forgotten. ![]()
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