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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Galton Case (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (originale 1959; edizione 1996)di Ross Macdonald (Autore)
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È contenuto inFour Novels of the 1950s: The Way Some People Die / The Barbarous Coast / The Doomsters / The Galton Case di Ross Macdonald Club del misterio. Volumen I: Prólogo de J. J. BORGES. "El cuento policial, IX" . Dashiell HAMMETT: "Cosecha roja". Arthur CONAN DOYLE: "Las aventuras de Shrlock Holmes". Hellery QUEEN: "Cara a cara". Raymond CHANDLER: "El sueño eterno". Patricia IHGSMITH: Erle STANLEY GARDNER: "El cuchillo". "El caso del juguete mortífero". James HADLEY CHASE: "Impulso creador". "El secuestro de Miss Blandish". Nicholas BLAKE: "La bestia debe morir". Volumen 2: Prólogo de R. CHANDLER: " El simpl di AA.VV. (indirettamente) Elenchi di rilievo
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The plot is launched when an aged millionaire hires Archer, through her lawyer, to find the son who left the family under unpleasant circumstances decades before. She’s dying, and wants to reconcile first. But the man Archer turns up isn’t the missing son, but a young man who looks and sounds just like him and claims to be his son, though he grew up far away and never knew his father, the missing heir. The son seems honest enough, but his story is suspicious, the criminal underground seems always to be on the edge of the picture, and there are tens of millions of dollars in inheritance at stake. Is the boy a ringer in a con years in the making? And whose are the headless bones found under a housing development on the coast of the South Bay?
The mystery seems to be resolved, and the client is satisfied. But Archer wants all the loose ends tied up. He makes an ill-advised trip to Nevada and ends up in the hospital; he spends the last half of the book making people wonder how many buses he got hit by. We’ve come a long way since the first Archer book, when he was knocked unconscious three times in 36 hours only to pop up repeatedly like an inflatable punching bag. He’s become a believable character. The tolerance for gray moral areas he picked up in the last book, The Doomsters, has stuck, too, and serves him well.
As with the previous two books in the series, I’d be happy to read this book again, just a few days after finishing it. The book’s plot is complex and ingenious, and the resolution throws a new light on everything that led up to it. And while elements of the story are grim, it’s not nihilist-bleak; it even ends, literally, on a hopeful note. ( )