Howard Mpofu, the director of hospitals for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe, liked the new doctor the minute he met him, in November 1994, when he picked him up at the Bulawayo city airport. Michael Swango looked like the American athletes Mpofu had seen on television. He was blond and b ...
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This biography of famed mystery writer Ross Macdonald tells of his troubled childhood, his vivid adulthood as a writer, husband, father, and mentor "to probably hundreds of people," and his heartwrenching death from Alzheimer's disease.