| From the first page of the Fontana edition: 'Lew Archer was hired by the bride's father to stop a wedding; he was to investigate the mysterious and romantic-looking young painter with whom Harriet was infatuated, and show him up as a good-for-nothing. Colonel Blackwell was very proprietary of his daughter although she was twenty-four years old Inquiring into the young man's past, Archer finds not mere dissipation or minor delinquency - but murder. As his investigation proceeds, this first murder leads to others. The story moves with speed and steadily mounting excitement across the map of California and through it's society, from Los Angeles to the floating population of gamblers and their girls in Lake Tahoe. Brilliantly written and plotted, the novel's climax comes as a triple shock and an all-too-credible revelation.' |
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