The Galton Case
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The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald
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 aging and very rich 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. In the character of Lew Archer, Ross Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin--and in so doing, gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. Deliciously devious and tersely poetic, The Galton Case displays Ross Macdonald at the pinnacle of his form.
[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zentih by Macdonald. --New York Times Book Review Macdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction. He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form. --Los Angeles Times Most mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin. --The Atlantic Without in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them. --Anthony Boucher [Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries. --The Guardian (London) [Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did. --Chicago Tribune
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679768647 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679768645 |
| Title | The Galton Case |
| Author | Ross Macdonald |
| Series | Lew Archer Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1996-11-26 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |