The Ivory Grin
$33.08
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2007
Summary
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, wit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307278999 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307278999 |
| Author: | Ross MacDonald |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books USA |
| Imprint: | Vintage USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 285g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 135mm x 202mm |
| Series: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
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Critics Review
“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
About The Author
Ross MacDonald
Kenneth Millar, who wrote under the name Ross Macdonald, was born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario. He returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and received their Grand Master Award. He also won the Mystery Writers of Great Britain’s Gold Dagger Award. Macdonald died in 1983.
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