The Ivory Grin

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 whos gone mysteriously missing.