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The Wycherly Woman

Part of the Lew Archer series

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly—or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe's mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who keeps too many residences, has too many secrets, and leaves too many corpses in her wake.

Genre
mysterycrimenoirdetectiveprivate investigator
Setting
1960scalifornia
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 288 pages

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