The Galton Case Creme de la Crime A woman has been discovered

A woman has been discovered bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz

using a mixture of anecdotes

plans to keep the gold

and a merciless nemesis that takes no chances

Having escaped Amethyst to San Francisco

The Galton Case Creme de la Crime A woman has been discoveredTwenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere, happy and eager not to be discovered? But what Archer finds a headless skeleton, a clever con and a terrified blonde reveals a game whose stakes are so high that someone is willing to kill.