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The Galton Case
Ross Macdonald
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Description for The Galton Case
Paperback. Twenty 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? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
Twenty 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. The Galton Case is a wonderfully devious and poetic look at poverty, greed, murder and identity. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer ... Read more
Twenty 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. The Galton Case is a wonderfully devious and poetic look at poverty, greed, murder and identity. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141196633
SKU
V9780141196633
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About Ross Macdonald
MacDonald served as president of The Mystery Writers of America in 1965, received the Silver Dagger in 1964 and the Gold Dagger in 1965 from The British Crime Writers Association, and in 1981, received The Eye, the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Private Eye Writers of America.
Reviews for The Galton Case
I defy any reader to set the book aside before the last twist in a thrilling story
Barry Turner
Daily Mail
The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American
William Goldman Ross MacDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books
James Ellroy America's greatest crime writer
Elmore ... Read more
Barry Turner
Daily Mail
The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American
William Goldman Ross MacDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books
James Ellroy America's greatest crime writer
Elmore ... Read more