The Drowning Pool

Release on 2012-07-05 | by Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald. ROSS MACDONALD The Drowning Pool with an Introduction by John Banville PENGUIN BOOKS Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21. ROSS MACDONALD The Drowning Pool.

Author: Ross Macdonald
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780141968162
Category: Fiction
Page: 272
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When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the Slocums around, Archer finds that Mrs Slocum might have the least of the family's troubles: her teenage daughter is desolate, her husband is in the closet and her mother-in-law has just come to an unpleasant end in the swimming pool. But why is their handsome ex-chauffeur still hanging around? And what does the sinister Pacific Refinery Company have to do with the all the bloodshed? The Drowning Pool is Ross Macdonald's gripping tale of adultery, jealousy, murder and lies. Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. They have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William Goldman, Jonathan Kellerman, Eudora Welty and Elmore Leonard.

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Pages: 272

The Drowning Pool

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