The Drowning Pool (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Macdonald, Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141196629 ISBN 13: 9780141196626

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

The American private eye, immortalised Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald (The New York Times Book Review)

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141196629
• ISBN 13: 9780141196626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272