The Galton Case (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Kenneth Millar
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, California, West, U.S., Detectives, Missing persons, Private investigators, Impostors or imposture
- Locales: California, Canada, Michigan, Nevada
According to Macdonald, he and young John Galton in The Galton Case have much in common, including “a sense of displacement, a feeling that, no matter where we were, we were on the alien side of some border. . . . like dubious claimants to a lost inheritance.” Among Macdonald's notebook jottings about the novel is the statement, “Oedipus angry vs. parents for sending him away into a foreign country,” and he has written that the book “was shaped not in imitation exactly, but in awareness of . . . early Greek models.”
The action begins twenty years after Anthony...
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