The Ivory Grin, Ross Macdonald
The Ivory Grin, Ross Macdonald
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The Ivory Grin
A Lew Archer Novel

Author: Ross Macdonald

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 6 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/17/2010

Synopsis

A hardfaced 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 hes 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, rundown 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 numbers runners from Detroit, gorgeous triplecrossing molls, and a goldenboy shipping heir whos gone mysteriously missing.

About Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald (1915–1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. He is widely credited with elevating the detective novel to the level of literature with his compactly written tales of murder and despair. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966. In 1982 he was awarded the Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Private Eye Writers of America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

This, the fourth novel in the Lew Archer series, is very good but not exceptional (at least not according to the standards of this exceptional series). It does, however, have all the ingredients of a good mystery, and is graced with Macdonald's strengths such as his vivid cameos (the old invalid bla......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

"The side of justice when I can find it. When I can't find it, I'm for the underdog." Much of the time it feels like Archer is the lone sane, even keeled person in a sea of nuts. Guilty or innocent, most everyone he encounters is off kilter - deluded, unstable or aggrieved in some manner. Yet he's ab......more

Goodreads review by Kirk

This is the first time Archer went all sociologically profound on our genre-loving asses, and there's pros and cons. The good news is that Macdonald's racially tinged plot doesn't browbeat us with the politics, unlike, say, every episode of COLD CASE to ever feature an African-American. On the downs......more

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