The Ivory Grin by Ross MacDonald

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ivory Grin Series: #4 of The Lew Archer Series Author: Ross MacDonald Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 17, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantel of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin. 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 numbers runners from Detroit, gorgeous triple-crossing molls, and a golden-boy shipping heir who’s gone mysteriously missing.