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The Drowning Pool offered the perfect opportunity for the couple to work together and have some fun in the process. Even though The Drowning Pool was set in Southern California in the novel, the movie sets the story in New Orleans, which was also the location of the last film Newman and Woodward made together W.U.S.A. (1970).
The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald's novel of the same name. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a loose sequel to Harper .
Jul 24, 2018 · The Drowning Pool, in many regards, felt like Ross MacDonald's Red Harvest, but it might've been a better novel without its protagonistLew Archer. The idea is great, but a character that's in the known of what's going on would've made it less of a violent coincidences contest. The Drowning Poolwas my second Ross MacDonaldnovel.
May 2, 2017 · Into the Water. : An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning. A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate.
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Printing. Pocket Book number 821; first printing, August 1951, stated. A Lew Archer mystery, with cover art by Ray App; the basis (somewhat loosely) for the 1975 Paul Newman movie. The book is unmarked; spine slanted and creased; wraps edgeworn and soiled; sleeve protected.
Reluctantly agreeing to help her find the culprit, he dives into the Slocums' moneyed, oil-rich California world. But when Maude's mother-in-law is found dead in the swimming pool, secrets come to the surface too. For the urbane, world-weary Archer, a case of blackmail soon becomes murder.
Jan 1, 2011 · The Drowning Pool does actually try and pull a coherent plot out of its melange of genres, which doesn't really work in the end, and the whole thing feels like it needs chopping up, editing and polishing to within an inch of its life. The language can be annoying, with a lot of slang shoehorned in (presumably to make it sound more casual and ...
