Original sentence: Heir to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as the master of American "hard boiled" mysteries, his writing built on the pithy style of his predecessors by adding psychological depth and insights into the motivations of his characters
Edited sentence: He fashioned descriptive metaphors, so aligned with their subjects ... sadness, horror, a place in time, a rise in the road ... that his works have an atmosphere of language that likely will last.Heir to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as the master of American "hard boiled" mysteries, Macdonald's writing built on the pithy style of his predecessors by adding psychological depth and insights into the motivations of his characters