🎧 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.