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  • Published: 26 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141968162
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

The Drowning Pool




A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled

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?

  • Published: 26 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141968162
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

About the author

Ross Macdonald

Ross MacDonald served as president of The Mystery Writers of America in 1965, received the Silver Dagger in 1964 and the Gold Dagger in 1965 from The British Crime Writers Association, and in 1981, received The Eye, the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Private Eye Writers of America.

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Praise for The Drowning Pool

The American private eye, immortalised Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald

The New York Times Book Review