#2 Lew Archer

The Drowning Pool

Ross Macdonald
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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. In The Drowning Pool, 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
Genres: MysteryFictionCrimeNoirDetectiveMystery ThrillerHard BoiledAmericanThrillerNovels
244 Pages

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