The Goodbye Look

The private eye had died by a bullet to his head, and Archer knew it could just as easily have been him. The case had begun with a stolen gold box, but now it was a search under the hot California sun for a missing rich boy, a hobo, and a gun that had been used for two murders -- fifteen years apart. In the land of earthquakes and other natural disasters, the lives of some lowlifes and newly rich have come crashing together, and for Lew Archer the only way out now is to unravel the mystery that started so many years, and dead bodies, ago.