The Drowning Pool
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The Drowning Pool
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Narrateur(s):
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Grover Gardner
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Auteur(s):
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Ross Macdonald
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.
©1950 Afred A. Knopf, Inc. © renewed 1978 by John Ross Macdonald (P)2001 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Vous pourriez aussi aimer...
Ce que les critiques en disent
“Fast moving, smoothly written, first-rate whodunit of the hard-boiled school.”
(New York Times Book Review)“Macdonald picked up the baton dropped by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and took the genre to new heights…The Drowning Pool returns to…the complex and compelling plotting, psychological depth, just enough mayhem, and highly economical prose.”
(Amazon.com)“Archer solves crimes with the instincts of a psychologist and the conscience of a priest, and the mid-twentieth-century Southern California setting is a wonderful ride in the Wayback Machine.”
(Los Angeles Times, praise for the series)“The plots involve murder, deceit, blackmail, sex, and all those other goodies that make for great crime stories.”
(Library Journal, praise for the series)“Ross Macdonald remains the grandmaster, taking the crime novel to new heights by imbuing it with psychological resonance, complexity of story, and richness of style.”
(Jonathan Kellerman, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author)“[Grover Gardner]’s narration perfectly captures Archer’s world-weary persona and is by turns crisp, sardonic, and wry…Only references to prices and technology remind us that the story features a different time.”
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Tom Parker's narration is likewise improved in this installment in the series. He still reads much too slowly (1.20X is the optimal playback speed), but his tone is more emotive and his voice-acting is spot-on in this recording.
This audiobook rates 7 stars out of 10. 'The Drowning Pool' further has great standalone merit - you can listen to this one without having experienced the first book. It was offered for free with my subscription but it would actually rate a Credit for fans of old-school hardboiled fiction. I can definitely recommend this offering.
Big Improvement on Book One
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Ticks all the boxes for an enjoyable ,hard boiled, smart ass detective story
The narration I thought was excellent.
Will work my way through Ross Macdonalds collection.
Nice break in the action from more cerebral and demanding reads.
AEL
Entertaining
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