Category: Fiction: Mystery and Suspense

Copyright/published Year: 1977 by Bantam Books

ISBN: 0553103911

Binding: paperback

Description: The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness, ì and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a ì work of art. The era is the 1970s; the setting, Southern ì California. Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a stolen canvas ì reputed to be the work of the celebrated Richard Chantry, who ì vanished in 1950 from his home in Santa Teresa. It is the ì portrait of an unknown woman.

Suddenly, Lew finds himself drawn into a web of family ì complications and masked brutalities stretching back fifty years, ì through a world where money talks or buys silence, where social ì prominence is a murderous weapon, where, behind the plausible ì facade of homes not quite broken but badly bent, a heritage of ì lies and evasions pushes troubled men and women deeper into ì trouble. And as he pursues the Chantry portrait, and the larger ì mystery of Richard Chantry, Archer himself is shaken as never ì before--by a woman.

Condition Information

This is a used book and is in Good condition.

Additional condition description

1977 First Bantam edition. Binding sound. Some aging. Cover and pages clean and unmarked.