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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