The Drowning Pool

:for the band see Drowning Pool

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Written in 1950 by Ross Macdonald, Mystery.

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The second book in the Lew Archer series, Lew is hired by a woman to investigate a slanderous letter she receives. The family lives in the house that sits on the line between two southern Californian towns: One, an idealic oil-rich town and the other the town where the oil came from, corrupt and destroyed by the industry. It's not long before Lew is more concerned with investigating murder than blackmail.

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This book was the basis of the 1975 Paul Newman film of the same name, but the movie is a pretty radical departure, including moving the location to Louisiana.

Related Topics:
Paul Newman - Film of the same name

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