Crime writer John D. MacDonald, a master of the genre, was so prolific that sometimes he couldn’t keep up with what he was doing. He might have dozens of stories in submission at once and would leave some unfinished or unpublished as he moved to a new idea.
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The newly seen story, a narrative of lust, betrayal and dangerous choices, was found in the archives at the University of Florida. “The Accomplice” is set in a grocery store where a “nearly” 18-year clerk named Joey works alongside the middle-aged owner, John Mallon, and his younger wife, Belle, whom MacDonald introduces as tall and long-faced, very white and so thin and taut that “her hips stuck out against the dresses she wore.” Before long, she is paying close attention to Joey, who would prefer — at first — that she keep it all professional.10 notable books of 2024, from Sarah J.
In a plot turn known to fans of “Double Indemnity” and other noir favorites, Belle proposes that they kill her husband and use the insurance money to go into business together.MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, in 1916, and later moved with his family to Utica, New York, where he was still living when he wrote “The Accomplice.” He settled in Sarasota, Florida in the early 1950s and remained for decades before dying in Milwaukee, in 1986.
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