The Doomsters

The Doomsters

infobox Book |
name = The Doomsters
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image_caption = Cover of 1983 Bantam edition
author = Ross Macdonald
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country = United States
language = English
series = Lew Archer
genre = Mystery novel
publisher = Random House Inc
release_date = 1958
media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
pages =
isbn = ISBN 9-997-51958-2
preceded_by = The Barbarous Coast
followed_by = The Galton Case

"The Doomsters" is a 1958 mystery novel written by Ross Macdonald, the seventh book in the Lew Archer series. Many sources agree that this book marked a turning point in the series, wherein Macdonald abandoned his imitations of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and found his own voice. It also marks the fixing of Lew Archer's character as a man more interested in understanding the criminal than in catching him.


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