The Pacific plate moves northwestward relative to the North American plate, which causes earthquakes along the fault.ities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco are located along the San Andreas fault line. This marks the plate marg â¦ in between the Pacific plate and the North American Plate.
In the early 20th century, novels by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Erskine Childers featured spying, but the first and best truly modern spy writing was Somerset Maughamâs Ashenden (1928), based on his wartime experiences.
Legendary detective novelist and occasional screenwriter. Created Philip Marlowe. Died midway through writing his last Philip Marlowe novel, Poodle Springs, in 1959. More than three decades later, it was completed by Chandler admirer Robert B. Parker (author of the Spenser novels), and became a best-seller. Encouraged Ian Fleming to continue writing his James Bond novels in the mid 1950s by writing a few words of recommendation to Fleming's American publishers.