The Ivory Grin Audiobook

" Ross Macdonald's The Ivory Grin is taut and barrels along at a good enough pace to keep the reader gripped to finish the book as franticly as the events in the novel unfold. The only issue I have is that I knew who the killer was early on, and had the majority of the mystery solved to soon for me to fully enjoy the book. That's the only reason it didn't receive a five star "

" Audiobook. More a 3.5. I am always pleased with time spent with Ross Macdonald. "

" Good quick read, a little slow in the middle, but a good twist ending. I give it a 3.5 "

" An early entry in the Lew Archer series. This was also published under the title "Marked for Murder." It was a very enjoyable read. At this time, Macdonald's plots had more variation but his rhetorical genius hadn't quite peaked. "

" A very good example of a late hard-boiled detective novel. Very dark, very well written. This is the first Ross MacDonald book I have ever read and it won't be my last. "

" Another solid Lew Archer novel. "

" Wow, this is a downer even by Ross MacDonald standards. Gripping, nonetheless, and a twist to the ending right out of EC Horror comics. "

" Lew Archer does it again in this classic Macdonald mystery "

" Macdonald hit his stride in this fourth Lew Archer book. "

" I'm coming pretty late to Ross MacDonald, but it's wonderful stuff. Hell, Eudora Welty was a fan. And Lew Archer is nowhere near a sour-puss as Philip Marlowe. "

" A labyrinth of a tale, where you can never quite get a handle on who's part of the solution or another piece of the puzzle. MacDonald characters have more facets to their personalities, never falling into the cliched characterizations found in lesser writers in the genre "

" Very 60's noir if you are a fan you'll like it "

" There are some seriously nasty people in this book, which is awesome. "

" 4-4.5 stars. Good solid entry in the Archer series. Archer still feels a bit more like a window than a character here, but he's getting better, and the plot is nice and convoluted. "

" Another solid outing for Lew Archer. Really vivid, although the conclusion feels a bit rushed. "

" Chandleresque...great...not the best of them but good... "

" I had forgotten all about this series! Ross rocks. Also the new covers are su-poib. "

" A very good example of a late hard-boiled detective novel. Very dark, very well written. This is the first Ross MacDonald book I have ever read and it won't be my last. "

" Audiobook. More a 3.5. I am always pleased with time spent with Ross Macdonald. "

" I'm coming pretty late to Ross MacDonald, but it's wonderful stuff. Hell, Eudora Welty was a fan. And Lew Archer is nowhere near a sour-puss as Philip Marlowe. "

" One of the best hardboiled crime novels I've ever read. "Her cut throat gaped like the mouth of an unspeakable grief.” Wow. "

" A lesser Archer. Both more complex and tighter than The Moving Target, but not yet quite meaningful in its complexity. Macdonald was still working out his formula, his Gestalt mystery. It is, at least, scoured of obvious Chandler/Hammett thefts. "

" Lew Archer, CA private eye, runs again.CA is a hotbed of sin and corruption.And murder.Great, simple detective procedural, uncomplicated by the private agonies and spouses and significant others of most detective stories. "

" There are some seriously nasty people in this book, which is awesome. "

" I had forgotten all about this series! Ross rocks. Also the new covers are su-poib. "

" An early entry in the Lew Archer series. This was also published under the title "Marked for Murder." It was a very enjoyable read. At this time, Macdonald's plots had more variation but his rhetorical genius hadn't quite peaked. "