The Galton Case

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Ross Macdonald (Los Gatos, 1915 -Santa Bárbara, 1983) es el pseudónimo del novelista Kenneth Millar. Fuertemente influenciado por autores como Dashiell Hammett y Raymond Chandler, ha sido considerado uno de los más brillantes herederos de la época dorada de la literatura negra estadounidense. Algunas de sus novelas más conocidas, todas ellas protagonizadas por el detective Lew Archer, han sido publicadas por RBA: El blanco móvil (SN, 47), La piscina de los ahogados (SN, 121), La forma en que algunos mueren (SN, 157), La sonrisa de marfil (SN, 175), La mirada del adiós (SN, 23) y El martillo azul (SN, 3) ) y La piscina de los ahogados (SN, 121).