The Drowning Pool
$32.96
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
19 September 2012
Summary
One of America’s finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.
When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer’s office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the Slocums around, Archer finds that Mrs Slocum might have the least of the family’s troubles - her teenage daughter is desolate, her husband is in the closet and her mother-in-law has just come to an unpleasant end in t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141196626 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141196629 |
| Author: | Ross Macdonald, John Banville |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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The American private eye, immortalised Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald
The American private eye, immortalised Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald * The New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Ross Macdonald
MacDonald served as president of The Mystery Writers of America in 1965, received the Silver Dagger in 1964 and the Gold Dagger in 1965 from The British Crime Writers Association, and in 1981, received The Eye, the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Private Eye Writers of America.
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