Archer , like Hammett 's fictional heroes , was a camera eye , with hardly any known past .
Ross Macdonald , pseudonym of Kenneth Millar , updated the form again with his detective Lew Archer .
Lew Archer , like Hammett 's fictional heroes , was a camera eye , with hardly any known past .
Ross Macdonald , pseudonym of Kenneth Millar , updated the form again with his detective Lew Archer .