The Drowning PoolRoss MacdonaldLabel: Penguin ClassicsDescription: 'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphMaude 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.
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