The Dark Tunnel

The Dark Tunnel is a 1944 spy thriller novel written in by Ross Macdonald.

University professor Robert Branch makes light of his best friend's suspicions that there is a Nazi spy in their sleepy, midwestern university town. He is more interested in the fact that his ex-girlfriend from Germany is about to take a post at the university. But then his ex turns out to be rather mysteriously engaged to the son of the German professor and he watches his best friend fall to his death out his own office window. Robert is the only one who thinks it is not suicide. When he attempts to expose the killers, he is not believed and he finds himself running for his life, marked as their next target.

Millar wrote The Dark Tunnel in one month at Ann Arbor in 1943, while completing graduate work at the University of Michigan.

This book was reprinted by Lion in 1955 under the title I Die Slowly.

The book, under both titles, is currently out of print.

The works of Ross Macdonald

Lew Archer works

Novels	The Moving Target • The Drowning Pool • The Way Some People Die • The Ivory Grin • Find a Victim • The Barbarous Coast • The Doomsters • The Galton Case • The Wycherly Woman • The Zebra-Striped Hearse • The Chill • The Far Side of the Dollar • Black Money • The Instant Enemy • The Goodbye Look • The Underground Man • Sleeping Beauty • The Blue Hammer

Short stories	The Name is Archer • Lew Archer: Private Investigator • Strangers in Town

Omnibuses	Archer in Hollywood • Archer at Large • Archer in Jeopardy

Writing as John Macdonald

The Dark Tunnel • Trouble Follows Me • Blue City • The Three Roads

Other novels

Meet Me at the Morgue • The Ferguson Affair