Lew Archer: The Drowning Pool Lib/E (Audiobook)

from smik

This Penguin Publisher e-book version comes with an excellent introduction by John Banville. "as usual with Macdonald, the mud at the bottom of today's pool is stirred up by yesterday's storms. There is hardly a character in the book without something to hide from his or her past." All this gives...

from idiotgirl

Liked this book a lot. (Audiobook listen.) Lew Archer is a good man. Hard to always know what the mystery was here. But in the end, the book revealed that it was a real one. Archer always perseveres. Even without money or someone pressing. I like this. Also like the ambiance of LA in the late 40s...

from Condorena

This is the second in the Lew Archer series. I liked it quite a bit and I am seeing some parallels in MacDonald's works. There are some recurrent themes such as lost innocence of youth, escalating violence, and broken adults with twisted lives.

from wdwilson3

Re-visiting the Lew Archer novels in sequence, this second installment is a marked improvement on the first. Better characterizations, better plot, a little less philosophical talking, same great descriptions of people, places, and things. Really good 1950 Southern California feel to it.

from SarahEBear

Four and a half stars - I'm the first to admit that I'm a bag fan of crime fiction (both hard boiled and cozy), so it was no surprise that I loved "The Drowning Pool". This is Ross Macdonald's second book in the Lew Archer series. Former cop, now PI, Lew Archer is hired to track down the writer o...