Lew Archer #3 The third Lew Archer mystery, in which a missing-persons search takes him "through slum alleys to the luxury of a Palm Springs resort, to a San Francisco drug-peddler's shabby room. Some of the people were dead when he reached them....
Mardi Gras Mystery was originally written for The Shadow Magazine in September 1935 by Street & Smith Publications.
A curious mystery arrives on the last day of carnival. A masked woman hands Andrew an ebony locked box and a key. Who is this...
I swung the wet, flat money belt, enjoying the slap of it against my leg.
I had gone through a lot to get that belt. I had consorted with midgets and freaks. I had been lied to, framed, been offered the bribery of a beautiful but depraved...