The Ivory Grin
About this book
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.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 2857 readers · 204 pages · ≈ 3 h 47 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The Ivory Grin?
About ≈ 3 h 47 m — 204 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Ivory Grin?
204 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Ivory Grin?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is The Ivory Grin in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does The Ivory Grin take place?
It is set in California.
Who wrote The Ivory Grin?
Ross MacDonald (1319–1119).