The Galton Case
Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be...
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Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald at the pinnacle of his form.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679768647 (0679768645)
ASIN: 679768645
Publish date: November 26th 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 242
Edition language: English
Series: Lew Archer 2 (#8)
Ah, Ross Macdonald. I'm becoming rather fond of him. Good I discovered him. He gives a nice break from re-reading Raymond Chandler endlessly. This plot is rather convoluted, so I'll only touch on a bit. A rich old lady, Maria Galton, thinks herself to be on the verge of death. Before that happens, s...
I think that Ross MacDonald is my favorite mystery novelist, now that I've read The Galton Case. There's just something about his writing that pulls me along, so I don't want to put the book down, which is something I can't say about a lot of authors. An old, dying millionairess hires Lew Archer to ...
One of the best. The maturing of Archer... I mean, Macdonald (see my comments on The Doomster)... continues
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