30-odd metaphors from Ross Macdonald

If you enjoyed sipping a word like brandy with Doris Lessing, then get comfortable for a bumper pack of similes and metaphors courtesy of Ross Macdonald and his story collection The Archer Files (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2015), edited by Tom Nolan. The book title refers to Macdonald’s protagonist Lew Archer, a private detective in California. […]