Black Money

An exquisitely crafted mystery, my favorite of the Lew Archer variety. Each chapter was a delicious morsel.

Quick synopsis: Archer's hired by the young, 3rd generationly rich Peter, to find out who Ginny Fablon's pseudo French lover Martel was. (He was Panamanian). Taps, the French teacher, and his wife who has a crush on Archer; the ladies at the country club, the receptionist at the club. An unknown murderer kills Ginny's dad first (blamed as suicide: dead body washed up on shore, death by drowning, and body chewed up by sharks), then 7 years later kills her mom and husband (Martel).