The Drowning Pool - Ross Macdonald
Category: Mystery
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, Classic, Adults
Lew Archer Series, Book 2 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Release date: October 9, 2008 Duration: 06:40:20, When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his wife, who stand to inherit, as well as a questionable chauffeur and a tycoon of a company trying to get the womans property for the oil under it. Private Investigator Lew Archer takes this case in the Los Angeles suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatredand sufficient motive for a dozen murders., This classic hard-boiled mystery, the second featuring P.I. Lew Archer, holds up well more than fifty years after its first appearance. A woman who has received a blackmail letter hires Archer; the case involves him in intrigue, death, and twisted relationships among family members and lovers. The well-drawn characters involve the listener, and only references to prices and technology remind us that the story features a
