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. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts.Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series.
- ISBN10 072780197X
- ISBN13 9780727801975
- Publish Date 28 January 1977 (first published January 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English