The Wycherly Woman
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. And before he could locate the Wycherly girl, Archer had to reckon with the...
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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. And before he could locate the Wycherly girl, Archer had to reckon with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe's mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who kept too many residences, had too many secrets, and left too many corpses in her wake.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375701443 (0375701443)
Publish date: March 3rd 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: Lew Archer 2 (#9)
So nice to get back to something not icky and saccharinely sweet. Horace Wycherly hires Lew Archer to find his daughter, Phoebe. It seems that Horace went off for a few months on a cruise to the South Seas, and by the time he got back, he found that Phoebe had left college and been missing for sever...
A spoiler alert -- A psychological thriller. For much of this, I felt that the story was a bit too intricate to be quite believable. But I was, in the end, completely won over.A very long set-up, but well worth the wait for Macdonald fans, of which I am one.
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