Quotes from book
The Drowning Pool

Name: The Drowning Pool
Author: Ross Macdonald

The Drowning Pool is a 1950 mystery novel by American writer Ross Macdonald, his second book in the series revolving around the cases of private detective Lew Archer.

“Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.”

Ross Macdonald book The Drowning Pool

The Moving Target (1949)
Source: The Drowning Pool

“They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through mountains, cut down a thousand year of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted.”

Ross Macdonald book The Drowning Pool

The Drowning Pool (1952)

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