From the back cover of first Bantam edition:
'In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Following a trail that twists from Pacific Point to San Francisco and Palm Springs, Archer finds his Galatea and a number of other missing persons - living and dead.'


The Way Some People Die
First Bantam edition, 1971.

Trivia:
Anthony Boucher once said (in New york Times Book Review, 5 August 1951) about The Way Some People Die that it was 'the best novel in the tough tradition I've read since Farewell, My Lovely and possibly since The Maltese Falcon.'

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