Ross Macdonald The Drowning Pool (Paperback) Penguin Modern Classics (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Drowning PoolCondition: NewEAN: 9780141196626ISBN: 9780141196626Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/05/2012Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 16mmItem Weight: 202gAuthor: Ross MacdonaldContributor: John Banville (Introduction by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0141196629Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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