The Galton Case Håkan Nesser It holds a mirror up

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The Galton Case Håkan Nesser It holds a mirror upTwenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere, happy and eager not to be discovered? 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.