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The Drowning Pool
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The Drowning Pool

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A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled

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 the swimming pool. But why is their handsome ex-chauffeur still hanging around? And what does the sinister Pacific Refinery Company have to do with the all the bloodshed?

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
25 July 2023
Pages
240
ISBN
9780241639191

A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled

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 the swimming pool. But why is their handsome ex-chauffeur still hanging around? And what does the sinister Pacific Refinery Company have to do with the all the bloodshed?

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
25 July 2023
Pages
240
ISBN
9780241639191