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  • The Galton Case

  • A Lew Archer Mystery
  • Written by: Ross Macdonald
  • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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The Galton Case

Written by: Ross Macdonald
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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Publisher's Summary

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.

Almost 20 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.
©1959 Ross MacDonald, copyright renewed 1987 by Margaret Millar (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Private Investigators Traditional Detectives Hard-Boiled Suspense Classic Detective
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What the critics say

“Exciting, beautifully plotted, and written with taste, perception and compassion.” ( New York Times Book Review)
“A model of intelligently engineered excitement." ( New Yorker)
“One of his best….The Macdonald depth of understanding and dispassionate charity come out well, and the story…is richly plotted.” ( San Francisco Chronicle)

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intricate story and hard boiled prose

very pleasurable reading experience. The story moves briskly and is twisty. the author has a very distinctive style.

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