The Drowning Pool
by John Ross MacDonald
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-363. Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1950. 244 pgs. A Lew Archer Mystery. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The first edition of John Ross Macdonald's second Lew Archer title, preceding the UK edition by two years; subsequently the inspiration for the 1975 Paul Newman film of the same name. 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. Private investigator Lew Archer takes this case in the L. A. Suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred - and sufficient motive for a dozen murders. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67038
- Title
- The Drowning Pool
- Author
- John Ross MacDonald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Place of Publication
- E-363
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