by Ross Macdonald · Ediciones Forum · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475741086
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«La sonrisa de marfil» is the mystery novel by Ross Macdonald, published in 1984 by Ediciones Forum in paperback (104 pages, in Spanish).
Detective Lew Archer is hired by a wealthy woman to find her former maid, accused of stealing her jewels. His inquiries lead him to a sordid motel in a decaying town, where the maid turns up murdered. The investigation uncovers a web of deceit involving Detroit numbers runners and a missing young heir.
Fourth novel in the Lew Archer series. It was originally published in 1952 under the title The Ivory Grin. This edition includes cover and illustrations by Miguel Ángel Pratico.
A suitable read for fans of classic hardboiled fiction and detective stories.
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.
