The Ivory Grin,

✍ Scribed by MacDonald, Ross

• Book ID: 107861772
• Publisher: Warner Books
• Year: 1952
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 123 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Hired to follow a runaway, Lew Archer soon finds himself trying to solve a mystery involving a beautiful temptress, a mad Detroit mobster, and a young gentleman. Reprint. NYT.

Review

Macdonald's spare, controlled narration, built for action and speed, conveys the world through which the action moves and gives it meaning, [bringing] scene and character, however swiftly, before the eye without a blur.Eudora Welty, The New York Times Book Review"Archer-Macdonald are working together at their peak, piecing together a most modern American tragedy, making literature out of the thriller form, gazing more clearly the ever into the future as it rolls through the smog. NewsweekRoss Macdonald must be ranked high amongst American thriller-writers.Times Literary Supplement

From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

ROSS MACDONALD (1915-1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco but raised in British Columbia, he returned to the United States as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Silver Dagger Award.