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The Ivory Grin

Ross Macdonald

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Random US
01 July 2007
Another exciting entry in the Lew Archer series.

Archer must contend with devious doctors, blowsy broads and psychotic mobsters as he tries to solve a series of gruesome murders. VINTAGE CRIME /BLACK LIZARD

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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Imprint:   Random US
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   203g
ISBN:   9780307278999
ISBN 10:   0307278999
Series:   Lew Archer Series
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for The Ivory Grin

Macdonald's spare, controlled narration, built for action and speed, conveys the world through which the action moves and gives it meaning, [bringing] scene and character, however swiftly, before the eye without a blur. Eudora Welty, The New York Times Book Review Archer-Macdonald are working together at their peak, piecing together a most modern American tragedy, making literature out of the thriller form, gazing more clearly the ever into the future as it rolls through the smog. Newsweek Ross Macdonald must be ranked high amongst American thriller-writers. Times Literary Supplement


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