The Drowning Pool.

JOHN ROSS MACDONALD

Publication: Alfred A Knopf, 1950, New York

First edition. Light offsetting to front three endpapers caused from binder's glue, else a near fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light professional restoration to the spine ends, corners, and extremities, and small, old water stain to the verso, not visible on the outer cover. 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? The 1975 movie of the same name was directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starred Paul Newman, Joan Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Melanie Griffith, et al. An attractive copy housed in a cloth slipcase.

Inventory Number: 40673