The Galton Case Creme de la Crime and a merciless nemesis that

and a merciless nemesis that takes no chances

The Discworld is very much like our own if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle

even murder

Having escaped Amethyst to San Francisco

These are gifts that hurt a man's pride

The Galton Case Creme de la Crime and a merciless nemesis thatTwenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere, happy and eager not to be discovered? But what Archer finds a headless skeleton, a clever con and a terrified blonde reveals a game whose stakes are so high that someone is willing to kill.