| The Galton Case: A Lew Archer Novel Contributor(s): MacDonald, Ross (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679768645 ISBN-13: 9780679768647 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97118474 |
| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.14" W x 8.12" (0.43 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. |