The Ivory GrinTravelling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever. A hard faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewellery. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks the wayward maid to a ramshackle motel in a seedy,

and drawn into the mysterious fate of a ten year-old girl

Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig

CRIMESQUAD

Happy families

Boon and young Lucius travel to Memphis in a stolen car to find love and fortune

a heretic turned spy

if he can master his own growing

An ex-villain has made contact because his wife has been kidnapped: he's sure it must be the corrupt policeman that he helped put away

have disappeared

but this time she's not sure she can

They're werewolves - and they're catching up

Buddy reminisces about Seymour and the novella unfolds into a deep and far-reaching exploration of a complex and sad character which displays all the tenderness and subtlety which distinguish the best of Salinger's writing