The Classic Mystery That Prefigured the Los Angeles Wildfires
- Posted on March 3, 2025
- By The New Yorker
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The Classic Mystery That Prefigured the Los Angeles Wildfires

Ross Macdonald’s “The Underground Man” is exquisitely attuned to the Californian landscape—how it rises, falls, smells, and, most indelible of all, how it burns.