From the back cover of Bantam edition:
'Someone's taken the big sleep at the Siesta Motel. There's a luscious blonde starlet who's pulled a vanishing act up in Santa Barbara. A Genteel headmistress has found love's golden dream with a con artist. And who deposited the ice-pick in the pretty boy's back? It's all in a days work for L.A.'s finest private detective as he gets down to business in his new office on the Boulevard. Seven intriguing cases await his personal attention, runing the gamut from blackmail to larceny to murder. When he runs into trouble, he's got his gun to talk him out of it. He's a good talker. And, oh yes, the name is Archer.'


The Name Is Archer
Second Bantam edition, 11th printing, 1983.

Trivia:
The Name Is Archer collects the following short stories: Find The Woman, Gone Girl, The Bearded Lady, The Suicide, Guilt-Edged Blonde, The Sinister Habit and Wild Goose Chase .
When Bantam published this collection Millar revised some of them into Archer stories. Millar didn't like writing short stories because the form was confining.


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