The Drowning Pool
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| name = The Drowning Pool
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| image = <!--prefer 1st edition-->
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| author = [[Ross Macdonald]]
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| country = [[United States]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| series = [[Lew Archer]]
| genre = [[Mystery novel]]
| publisher = [[Random House|Random House Inc]]
| release_date = 1950
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]], [[Paperback]])
| pages =
| isbn = ISBN 0-679-76806-8
| preceded_by = [[The Moving Target]]
| followed_by = [[The Way Some People Die]]
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'''The Drowning Pool''' is a 1950 mystery novel written by [[Ross Macdonald]], his second book in the series about [[private detective]] ''[[Lew Archer]]''.
==Plot summary==
Archer is hired by a woman to investigate a slanderous letter she received. The family lives in the house situated on the line between two Southern Californian towns, one an idyllic, oil-rich town, and the other the small, seedy town from which the oil comes, corrupt and destroyed by the industry. It is not long before Archer is more concerned with investigating murder instead of just blackmail.
The book was the basis of the 1975 [[Paul Newman]] [[The Drowning Pool (movie)|film of the same name]], but the movie has radical departures from the plot of the novel, including moving the location to Louisiana.
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[[Category:1950 novels]]
[[Category:Crime novels]]
[[Category:Novels by Ross Macdonald]]
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