From the back cover of Bantam edition:
'The beautiful silver-haired blonde had come to Tinsel Town with stardust in her eyes. She ended up in Malibu with clearer vision and big trouble. Now she was very definitely missing. By the time Lew Archer was hired to find her, the trail led straight to blackmail. To Archer that was the dirtiest game in the world. It got so he could smell it on people. And when he started to close in on the misplaced baby doll, he knew right away that she was in it up to her pretty neck... and knee-deep in blood-money and murder.'


The Barbarous Coast
Bantam edition, 8th printing, 1984.

Trivia:
Besides touching upon his Canadian roots for the first time (he introduces a Toronto reporter seeking for his lost wife), what critics would call Archer's almost Christ-like goodness emerges in this book: 'The problem was to love people, to serve them without wanting anything from them. I was a long way from solving that one.'
The plot involves assumed identity, which became a favorite Millar reversal device.

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