Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780307278999
- ISBN-10: 0307278999
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: July 2007
- Dimensions: 7.94 x 5.32 x 0.61 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.44 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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