The Drowning Pool - Crime and Espionage

Informationen zum Autor Ross Macdonald Klappentext 'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph 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. Zusammenfassung 'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ross Macdonald, MacDonald Ross
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.07.2023
• EAN: 9780241639191
• ISBN: 978-0-241-63919-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Crime; Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage; Penguin Modern Classics - Crime & Espionage
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Crime, California, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, c 1950 to c 1959, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction