The Ivory Grin |
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Authors: | Macdonald, Ross |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
BISAC/Subject: | FIC030000, FIC022090, FIC022010 |
ISBN: | 9780307772879, Related ISBNs: 0307278999, 030777287X, 0553273523, 9780307278999, 9780307772879 |
Classification: | Fiction |
Number of pages: | 256, |
Audience: | General/trade |
Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever.
A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks the wayward maid to a ramshackle motel in a seedy, run-down small town, but finds her dead in her tiny room, with her throat slit from ear to ear. Archer digs deeper into the case and discovers a web of deceit and intrigue, with crazed number-runners from Detroit, gorgeous triple-crossing molls, and a golden-boy shipping heir who’s gone mysteriously missing.
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