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The Drowning Pool

A Lew Archer Novel

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The Drowning Pool

By: Ross Macdonald
Narrated by: Tom Parker
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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.

Private investigator 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.

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©1978 John Ross Macdonald (P)2001 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Detective Fiction Hard-Boiled Mystery Private Investigators Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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Twisting Plot • Engaging Storyline • Sarcastic Protagonist • Intriguing Mystery • Compelling Characters • Complex Hero
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Tom Parker is one of the best hard boiled narrators ever. He does this action filled novel more than justice.

Lew Archer is an amazing character

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the story was ok, but to be honest, I listened to it in parts with days in between, so I was more enjoying it as if I was watching an old Humphrey Bogart movie and didn't always follow the plot. Tom Parker does a good job capturing Lew Archer's somewhat sarcastic sense of humor and dry self-awareness.

the reader captures the feel of the noir detective

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A bit verbose in describing a few scenes. Fortunately not so many times to make it difficult. Twists in story kept me quite interested

Interesting plot

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Maybe a bit contrived here and there but overall engrossing and always entertaining. Definitely recommended.


Great story

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Enjoyable. Trying too hard to be Raymond Chandler. Looking forward to working through the series though.

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Imagine private eye novels as bottles of whiskey (Irish spelling, I know). There, on the top shelf, that's where you find the good stuff. Up there is Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer. And Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer is most definitely up there, too. He's as classic as it gets. He's seen it all, he's weary, he's weathered, he's tough, he's seen it all and, buried deep, he's a righteous man with a big heart.

The Drowning Pool was the second of many Lew Archer tales and it follows the winding and twisting paths of a classic private dick story. There are dead people and dead ends, there are guns and dames and twisted minds and villains lurking in the darkness far behind the obvious suspects. Like I said, good stuff.

Classic private dick stuff

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A good story, well read, plus a good period piece that captures post WW Ii Southern California…..

Souther California Noir

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Archer is hired to find the writer of a degrading letter. What he gets - three murders and one suicide. Archer at his best.

The Letter

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The descriptions, metaphors, and similes would stop me in my tracks. Excellent story with twists and turns. I have to admit, I was in it for the author's use of figurative language.

Disney for lovers of language.

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My daughter and I love the way Ross McDonald describes what's going on. His descriptions are outstanding. he keeps you pulled into the story all the time.

Ross Macdonald is a great suthor

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