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Saturday, July 25, 2026

Neil deGrass Tyson, on learning:

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

- Neil deGrass Tyson.

The Way Some People Die

by Ross Macdonald.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0307278980
ISBN-13: 978-0307278982

Back cover description:

“The greatest American mystery novelist. Macdonald imbued the mystery with the qualities of a full-bodied novel: impeccable plotting, a sense of place, a careful delineation of human psychology, and a perfect fusion of story and character.” – Richard North Patterson.

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts. Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series.

“Ross Macdonald gives to the detective story that accent of class that Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago Tribune.

Born on this day – William C. DeMille:

William C. DeMille

Writer

Director

July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955

Credits:

Book:

Hollywood Saga (1939).

Movies and television:

A Trip to Paramountown (1922); After Five (1915); After the Show (1921); Almost Human (1927); Anton the Terrible (1916); Bought and Paid For (1922); Braveheart (1925); Cameo Kirby (1914); Captain Fury (1939); Carmen (1915); Clarence (1922); Classmates (1914 / 1924); Common Ground (1916); Craig's Wife (1928); Don't Call It Love (1923); Famous Scenes from Pagliacci (1934); For Alimony Only (1926); For Better, for Worse (1919); Gigolo (1926); Grumpy (1923); Hashimura Togo (1917); His Double Life (1933); Hollywood (1923); Icebound (1924); Jack Straw (1920); Joan the Woman (1916); Locked Doors (1925); Lost: A Wife (1925); Maria Rosa (1916); Men and Women (1925); Midsummer Madness (1920); Mirandy Smiles (1918); Miss Lulu Bett (1921); New Brooms (1925); Nice People (1922); One More American (1918); Only 38 (1923); Passion Flower (1930); Peg o' My Heart (1919); Quest of His Youth (1920); Rose of the Rancho (1914); Sinners in the Sun (1932); Social Register (1934); Strongheart (1914); Temptation (1915); Tenth Avenue (1928); The Bedroom Window (1924); The Blacklist (1916); The Clown (1916); The DeMille Dynasty (1998); The Doctor's Secret (1929); The Emperor Jones (1933); The Explorer (1915); The Fast Set (1924); The Forbidden Woman (1927); The Ghost House (1917); The Goose Girl (1915); The Governor's Lady (1915); The Heir to the Hoorah (1916); The Honor of His House (1918); The Idle Rich (1929); The Little Adventuress (1927); The Lost Romance (1921); The Man Higher Up (1929); The Marriage Maker (1923); The Master Mind (1914); The Mystery Girl (1918); The Night Club (1925); The Only Son (1914); The Prince Chap (1920); The Puppet Crown (1915); The Ragamuffin (1916); The Runaway (1926); The Secret Call (1931); The Secret Game (1917); The Secret Orchard (1915); The Sowers (1916); The Splendid Crime (1925); The Telephone Girl (1927); The Tree of Knowledge (1920); The Warrens of Virginia (1915 / 1924); The Widow's Might (1918); The Wild Goose Chase (1915); The Wise Wife (1927); The Woman (1915); The Woman God Forgot (1917); The World and the Woman (1916); The World's Applause (1923); This Mad World (1930); Two Kinds of Women (1932); We Can't Have Everything (1918); What Every Woman Knows (1921); Why Change Your Wife? (1920); Young Romance (1915).