by Ross Macdonald · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475306728
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«El caso Galton» is a crime novel volume by Ross Macdonald featuring three Lew Archer novels, published by Orbis in hardback (507 pages).
In the first novel, the elderly widow Galton hires Lew Archer to find her son who disappeared years ago; the investigation uncovers a family conspiracy over the inheritance. In «La mirada del adiós», Archer investigates the disappearance of a troubled young man, and in «El otro lado del dólar», he faces a plot of secrets and blackmail.
Volume 45 of the Grand Masters of Crime and Mystery collection, published in Barcelona in 1984; text in Spanish.
For readers of classic crime and detective fiction, especially fans of detective Lew Archer.
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.
