# The Way Some People Die

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- Book: [The Way Some People Die](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-macdonald/the-way-some-people-die) ([The Way Some People Die.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-macdonald/the-way-some-people-die.md))
- Authors: [Ross Macdonald](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-macdonald)
- Publisher: vintage_crime_black_lizard
- ISBN: 978-03-0727-898-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2007-07-10
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘crazy for men’...