[PDF] The Galton Case eBook

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307759679

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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.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141196637

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20 years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case. 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.

Author : Ross MacDonald
Publisher : Bantam Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 1980-03-01
Category : Archer, Lew (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780553226218

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A Lew Archer novel.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307773183

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The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before. Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030777287X

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Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever. A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks the wayward maid to a ramshackle motel in a seedy, run-down small town, but finds her dead in her tiny room, with her throat slit from ear to ear. Archer digs deeper into the case and discovers a web of deceit and intrigue, with crazed number-runners from Detroit, gorgeous triple-crossing molls, and a golden-boy shipping heir who’s gone mysteriously missing.

Author : Paul Nelson
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1606998889

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This is a prose series of unpublished interviews with, and a visual retrospective of, the seminal mid- to late-20th century literary crime writer. In 1976, critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald, who elevated the form to a new literary level. “We talked about everything imaginable,” Nelson wrote―including Macdonald’s often meager beginnings; his dual citizenship; writers, painters, music, and movies he admired; The Great Gatsby, his favorite book; how he used symbolism to change detective writing; and more. This book, published in a handsome, oversized format, collects these unpublished interviews and is a visual history of Macdonald’s professional career. It is illustrated with rare and select items from one of the world’s largest private archives of Macdonald ephemera; reproduces, in full color, the covers of the various editions of Macdonald’s more than two dozen books; collects facsimile reproductions of select pages from his manuscripts, as well as magazine spreads; and presents rare photos, many never before seen.

Author : Josh Ellenbogen
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0271052597

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"Examines three projects in late nineteenth-century scientific photography: the endeavors of Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Develops new theoretical perspectives on the history of photographic technology, as well as the history of scientific imaging more generally"--

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307759563

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When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the untanned skin of Southern California's high society.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307773175

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Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe's mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who keeps too many residences, has too many secrets, and leaves too many corpses in her wake.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307773159

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In The Far Side of the Dollar, private investigator Lew Archer is looking for an unstable rich kid who has run away from an exclusive reform school—and into the arms of kidnappers. Why are his desperate parents so loath to give Archer the information he needs to find him? And why do all trails lead to a derelict Hollywood hotel where starlets and sailors once rubbed elbows with two-bit grifters—and where the present clientele includes a brand-new corpse? The result is Ross Macdonald at his most exciting, delivering 1,000-volt shocks to the nervous system while uncovering the venality and depravity at the heart of the case.