Archer at Large

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover textured. Near Fine/VeryGood. 5.75"x8.5" 626 pgs. Gold boards w/black embossed letters on spine. DJ design by S. A. Summit, Inc. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Few small punctures to boards. Mild rubs, edge and shelf wear to DJ. Faint foxing to edges. Secure ship w/track #. The Galton Case: Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them.
The Chill: In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer.
Black Money: When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts.