The Drowning Pool (Canongate Crime Classics S.) - Softcover

Macdonald, Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184195117X ISBN 13: 9781841951171

Publisher: Canongate Crime, 2001

Synopsis

This, the second Lew Archer novel, opens with a well-dressed woman engaging Archer's services at his LA office. Soon he's digging up secrets in her oil-rich hometown, and the themes of tormented families, environmental destruction, and concealed paternity begin to emerge.

About this title

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.

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Crime
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 184195117X
• ISBN 13: 9781841951171
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256