Books like Black Money

A young girl from a good background becomes involved with a mysterious Frenchman at the country club, and her ex-fiancee hires Lew Archer to discover if the Frenchman is an impostor. Soon the Frenchman seems to be connected to an earlier death labeled as a suicide, and then the bodies begin to pile up. As usual, Archer must discover what happened in the past in order to understand the evil which continues to ruin the lives of the young here and now. I like this book very much, but it finally disappointed me because I did not believe the murderer to be capable of these crimes. As usual, though, Macdonald's plot is well planned, the clues and motives fairly presented, and the revelation prepared for.Still, it is an interesting novel. I particularly liked the character of the "Frenchman" Morel, a Gatsby-like figure chasing a distinctly West Coast version of the American Dream.