After Sable and Archer interview him, John leaves for Santa Teresa with Sable while Archer stays behind to tie up loose threads. Sable now drives up to San Francisco to join Archer and they hear that a young man calling himself John Brown has recently arrived from the Detroit area in search of news of his lost father. She had once worked for 'John Brown' in Luna City and, though she was unaware of his murder, she was able to throw suspicion on Culligan and his fellow gang member, 'Shoulders' Nelson. Archer then visits Redwood City, where Culligan's former wife has remarried and is desperately hiding her past. Interviewing Lemberg's drunken wife, Archer learns that Roy and his violent brother Tommy had associated with a Reno mobster called Schwartz. With the help of Anthony’s former doctor and the Luna Bay sheriff, Archer establishes the body’s identity as that of the man he is seeking.īefore leaving, Archer learns that his stolen car has been located, and that the crashed car had belonged to San Francisco resident Roy Lemberg. After the cottage where he had lived under the name of John Brown was demolished during redevelopment, a headless body was discovered buried beneath it. Archer flies instead to San Francisco and eventually discovers that the missing Anthony had settled in a former rum-running area called Luna Bay. Just as Archer is preparing to follow up a clue, Culligan in mortally stabbed and the armed assailant steals Archer's car after crashing his own. Sable is himself preoccupied with his much younger, mentally unstable wife Alice and has hired as manservant the belligerent Peter Culligan. He must try and locate her son Anthony, who had left home twenty years before with his sluttish, pregnant wife. Lew Archer is hired by attorney Gordon Sable on behalf of Maria Galton, Santa Teresa resident and widow of an oil millionaire. Macdonald thought that with this novel he found his own voice as a writer. In French it appeared as Un Mortel Air De Famille (A deadly family likeness, 1964) in Turkish as Ölmek Yasak (Forbidden to die, 1972) in Finnish as Rouva Galtonin perillinen (Mrs Galton’s heir, 1981) and in Italian as Il ragazzo senza storia (Boy without history, 2012). The book has been widely translated, although the title has been changed in some cases to highlight other aspects of the story. It was published in the US in 1959 by Knopf and in 1960 by Cassel & Co in the UK. The Galton Case is the eighth novel in the Lew Archer series by Ross Macdonald.
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