by Ross Macdonald · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432086595
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«La mueca de marfil» is the crime novel by Ross Macdonald, published by Planeta in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Detective Lew Archer is hired to find a maid who fled after being accused of stealing a wealthy client's jewels. The case changes completely when the young woman is found murdered in a roadside motel, and Archer becomes embroiled in a conspiracy of secrets and hidden interests around the loot.
Fourth installment in the Lew Archer detective series and number 48 in the Bestsellers Serie Negra collection. Translation by Mario Giacchino of the original novel The Ivory Grin (1952).
This novel is a good choice for readers of classic crime and noir fiction interested in the Lew Archer detective series.
Kenneth Millar, known mainly by the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works have received attention in academic circles for their psychological depth, sense of place, use of language, sophisticated imagery and integration of philosophy into genre fiction. Brought up in the province of Ontario, Canada, Macdonald eventually settled in the state of California, where he died in 1983.
