num_pages: 188
description: Roy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also a completely amoral con man. Lily, his mother, works for the mob. Moira Langtry, Roy's mistress, is always looking for the main chance, and so is Carol Roberg, the nurse brought in to look after Roy when a bad choice of mark means he has an unfortunate encounter with a baseball bat and a bad case of internal bleeding. Together they make up a perverse quadrangle of love and greed in a coruscating novel of corruption.
language: English
title: The Grifters
titlecomplete: The Grifters
characters: Bobo Justus, Roy Dillon, Lilly, Moira Langtry
genres: Classics, Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery, Pulp, Novels, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 11368
places: Los Angeles, California
publisher: Orion