THE GOODBYE LOOK by Ross Macdonald. 243 pages. Knopf. $4.95.
Critics are feared for the damage they can do to reputations, but they are probably at legist as dangerous when they turn kingmaker. After the deaths of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, several of them rushed around trying to fit on someone a dubious glass slipper marked "Greatest Living American Novelist." As a result, some would-be Cinderellas look pinched before their time.
The same sort of thing is happening to Ross Macdonald, a mystery-story writer of the hard-boiled Southern California school. The Goodbye Look...
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