From inside of thecover of the Collins Crime Club edition:
'In what is perhaps his strangest case Lew Archer, the celebrated private-eye, explores the secret life of a rich Californian residential suburb. A beautiful young woman has jilted her fiancé and taken up with a mysterious character who represents himself as a French political refugee. Hired to investigate this man Archer becomes involved in several murders and a gigantic swindle.'

Black Money
Black Money
Collins Crime Club edition, 1966

Trivia:
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a great source of inspiration for Millar - he once called him 'my dream writer' - and Black Money is perhaps his fullest acknowledge of that. It reads like a sixties California version of The Great Gatsby!

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