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Ross Macdonald, pseudonym of Kenneth Millar, updated the form again with his detective Lew Archer.
Archer, like Hammett's fictional heroes, was a camera eye, with hardly any known past.
" Turn Archer sideways, and he disappears ," one reviewer wrote.
Two of Macdonald's strengths were his use of psychology and his beautiful prose, which was full of imagery.
Like other ' hardboiled ' writers, Macdonald aimed to give an impression of realism in his work through violence, sex and confrontation ; this is illusory, however, and any real private eye undergoing a typical fictional investigation would soon be dead or incapacitated.
The 1966 movie Harper starring Paul Newman was based on the first Lew Archer story The Moving Target ( 1949 ).
Newman reprised the role in The Drowning Pool in 1976.
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