The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer Series #2)

by Ross Macdonald

Overview

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred—and sufficient motive for a dozen murders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679768067
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/03/1996
Series:	Lew Archer Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	178,005
Product dimensions:	5.17(w) x 8.04(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Canada, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983.

Editorial Reviews

Published in 1965, 1963, and 1950, respectively, this trio feature Macdonald's hard-boiled private detective Lew Archer. The plots involve murder, deceit, blackmail, sex, and all those other goodies that make for great crime stories.

Library Journal

This classic hard-boiled mystery, the second featuring P.I. Lew Archer, holds up well more than fifty years after its first appearance. Archer is hired by a woman who has received a blackmail letter; the case involves him in intrigue, death, and twisted relationships among family members and lovers. Tom Parker's narration perfectly captures Archer's world-weary persona and is, by turns, crisp, sardonic, and wry. He shows us the feeling behind Archer's mask of disengagement and capably handles the female characters with softer tones. The well-drawn characters involve the listener, and only references to prices and technology remind us that the story features a different time. M.A.M. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

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