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The Ivory Grin
The Ivory Grin | Ross Macdonald
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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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🎧 A good story well told! The whole of the mystery being resolved was like watching a Polaroid picture develop: Each chapter bringing the case into focus!

Lew Archer (ex-cop turned detective) is hired by a rather unattractive but wealthy woman to track down a younger woman who used to work for her... This quickly escalates into something much bigger involving a missing heir, femme fatales and, enough similes to mark it as mid-century noir.

rabbitprincess I need to read this one again! 5y
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Found an audiobook CD-edition at the FOTL book shop yesterday for fifty cents! The CDs are in *very good* condition and I have already loaded the first onto an old laptop that has a CD drive :-)

The fourth in the Lew Archer series, the detective is hired to track down a young African-American woman. Because this was written in 1951, I was a little worried about racist comments/language, but so far, nothing!