![]() ![]() This dark tale of family secrets is fairly sharp considering that Mary Roberts Rinehart was almost ninety years old when it was published. There’s nothing wrong with The Swimming Pool that couldn’t be solved by lopping off about a hundred pages. ![]() What she’s not prepared for is how far back into the past these sins will reach. When a dead body appears in the pool, mystery writer Lois must find out just what her sister is so afraid of. The swimming pool, once the site of girlhood triumphs, has become a special source of dread. Judith is terribly frightened of something, or someone. ![]() The darling of cafe society retreats to the isolated family house of her youth, shunning her friends and nailing her bedroom windows shut. ![]() She abruptly divorces her rich, older husband. Only Judith has remained the same, still lovely, still the center of attention. Their father went broke and committed suicide, and siblings Lois and Paul are barely hanging on their decrepit country estate. Twenty years later, everything has changed for the Maynard family. In the golden days of 1929, beautiful Judith Maynard held court over her admirers beside the swimming pool. You’ve done something, haven’t you? Something wrong. ![]()
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