Ross Macdonald

The Drowning Pool

Sprecher: Gardner, Grover

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Produktbeschreibung

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his wife, who stand to inherit, as well as a questionable chauffeur and a tycoon of a company trying to get the woman's property for the oil under it. Private Investigator Lew Archer takes this case in the Los Angeles suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred--and sufficient motive for a dozen murders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 400 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780786191680
• Artikelnr.: 41854841

Autorenporträt

Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco but raised in British Columbia, he returned to the United States as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. He is widely credited with elevating the detective novel to the level of literature with his compactly written tales of murder and despair. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966. In 1982 he was awarded the Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Private Eye Writers of America.

Rezensionen

The American private eye, immortalised Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald The New York Times Book Review