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 hatredand sufficient motive for a dozen murders.
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 hatredand sufficient motive for a dozen murders.
The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer Series #2)
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ISBN-13: | 9780679768067 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 06/28/1996 |
Series: | Lew Archer Series , #2 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 256 |
Sales rank: | 58,369 |
Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d) |
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