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The Galton Case. The Galton Case is the eighth novel in the Lew Archer series by Ross Macdonald. It was published in the US in 1959 by Knopf [1] and in 1960 by Cassel & Co in the UK. [2] The book has been widely translated, although the title has been changed in some cases to highlight other aspects of the story.
The Galton Case is like a delirium dream where you keep going in circles with the same people and the reason for doing this changes with each go around. Lew Archer is the detective on the case, and he is hired to solve the 20 year old disappearance of the scion of the wealthy Galton family.
Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald at the pinnacle of his form. About The Galton Case Lew Archer returns in this gripping mystery, widely recognized as one of acclaimed mystery writer Ross Macdonald’s very best, about the search for the long lost heir of the wealthy Galton family.
Nov 9, 2011 · The Galton case by Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983. Publication date 1960 Topics Mystery/Suspense, Archer, Lew (Fictitious character), Private investigators ...
The Galton Case is a wonderfully devious and poetic look at poverty, greed, murder and identity. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by ...
Sep 26, 2012 · The Galton Case is a wonderfully devious and poetic look at poverty, greed, murder and identity. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by ...
Jul 5, 2012 · The Galton Case is a wonderfully devious and poetic look at poverty, greed, murder and identity. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
