The Drowning Pool, Ross Macdonald
The Drowning Pool, Ross Macdonald
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The Drowning Pool
A Lew Archer Novel

Author: Ross Macdonald

Narrator: Tom Parker

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/09/2008

Synopsis

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her goodfornothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. Private investigator Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatredand sufficient motive for a dozen murders.

About Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald (1915–1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. He is widely credited with elevating the detective novel to the level of literature with his compactly written tales of murder and despair. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966. In 1982 he was awarded the Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Private Eye Writers of America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on February 18, 2019

This is the second book in the Lew Archer series, and with it MacDonald has produced the first of his many first-class mysteries. Archer is hired to track down a writer of blackmail letters, but soon the waters become murkier: someone drowns in an actual pool, and Archer's investigation of the murde......more

Goodreads review by Iain on March 03, 2024

An early Archer novel and my first. In the style of Chandler/Marlowe, without quite reaching those heights. A brisk, enjoyable read that follows the standard template of the private eye genre and does it very well.......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on October 31, 2012

I’m such a fan of hard-boiled; can’t seem to get enough of it. This is only my second Ross Macdonald and enjoyed it as much as the first. That translates to a lot, mucho, beaucoup, πολλά, multus, הרבה, viele! It’s the writing, I know, so clean, sparse is the word I like to use. The dialogue is on tar......more

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