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The Drowning Pool

Ross Macdonald (author)

Paperback Published on: 13/07/2023

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It would be too easy to label Macdonald’s novels as Chandleresque. True, the two giants of the genre share a noirish troubled detective at their root but, ... READ MORE

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It would be too easy to label Macdonald’s novels as Chandleresque. True, the two giants of the genre share a noirish troubled detective at their root but, ... READ MORE

Richard Hayden in Rye

Synopsis

Maude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business.

A well-dressed, wealthy woman has arrived at Archer's L.A. office, having intercepted a poison pen letter accusing her of adultery. Reluctantly agreeing to help her find the culprit, he dives into the Slocums' moneyed, oil-rich California world.

But when Maude's mother-in-law is found dead in the swimming pool, secrets come to the surface too. For the urbane, world-weary Archer, a case of blackmail soon becomes murder.