by Ross Macdonald · Planeta. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432086168
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«El caso Galton» is the mystery novel by Ross Macdonald, published by Planeta in paperback (223 pages, in Spanish).
Detective Lew Archer searches for Anthony Galton, heir to a great Californian fortune who disappeared over twenty years ago after marrying against the will of his aristocratic family. The routine inquiry goes awry when a recent murder and a headless skeleton surface, leading to a conspiracy that threatens to unsettle the present.
It is part of the series dedicated to detective Lew Archer, as the eighth installment. Originally published as The Galton Case in 1959.
A read for fans of classic crime and detective fiction, especially series featuring hard-boiled detectives.
Kenneth Millar, known mainly by the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works have received attention in academic circles for their psychological depth, sense of place, use of language, sophisticated imagery and integration of philosophy into genre fiction. Brought up in the province of Ontario, Canada, Macdonald eventually settled in the state of California, where he died in 1983.
