Book description
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 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. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers
as William Goldman, Jonathan Kellerman, Eudora Welty and Elmore Leonard.
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.
