REVIEWS

“Exciting, beautifully plotted, and written with taste, perception and compassion.”—New York Times Book Review

“A model of intelligently engineered excitement.”— New Yorker

“One of his best….The Macdonald depth of understanding and dispassionate charity come out well, and the story…is richly plotted.”— San Francisco Chronicle

“A tightly written page-turner that also probes profound themes and frequently rises to something like poetry….The Galton Case is an exceptionally satisfying read on several levels.”—Amazon.com Review

ROSS MACDONALD (1915–1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco but raised in British Columbia, he returned to the United States as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966.



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