Trouble Follows Me

Trouble Follows Me is a spy thriller written in 1946 by Ross Macdonald.

Plot summary

It's 1945. Ensign Sam Drake attends a party on his last night stationed in Hawaii and meets the woman of his dreams. But before the night is out, her best friend is dead in an upstairs room at the party. It appears to be suicide.

The next day Sam starts his leave before receiving a new post. He returns to his home town of Detroit, and decides to check into a connection there between the dead woman and a radical group of black activists. Another death quickly follows and Sam finds himself on a cross-country adventure, haunted by dangerous characters everywhere he turns.

Trouble Follows Me was reprinted by Lion Paperbacks in 1950 and 1955 under the title of Night Train, with cover art that presented it as a "race novel" to capitalize on the wartime Detroit riots.

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