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The Zebra-Striped Hearse. The Zebra-Striped Hearse is a detective mystery written in 1962 by American author Ross Macdonald, the tenth book featuring his private eye, Lew Archer. The Coen Brothers wrote an as-yet-unproduced screenplay based on the novel for Joel Silver. [1]
- Ross Macdonald
- 1962
The Zebra-Striped Hearse is a well-plotted novel, with a few surprising twists and turns. But, unlike most later Archers, although it is an effective mystery, it is not a superior one. The mediocre mystery features a victim and a half-dozen suspects, each equipped with a shiny red herring.
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Jan 27, 2022 · But in no time at all Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose path seems to keep crossing the son-in-law's--and Archer's--in a powerful, fast-paced novel of murder on the California coast
Apr 20, 2016 · The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald (1962) The Library of America --Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s (2016) aa pp. Last year, The Library of America welcomed the great, though relatively unknown — at least, by me and others in my circle — crime writer Ross Macdonald to their line, publishing Ross Macdonald: Four Novels of the 1950s, which included The Way Some People ...
Feb 16, 2011 · The Zebra-Striped Hearse. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped ...
Aug 9, 2013 · The zebra-striped hearse by Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983, author. Publication date 1984 Topics General, Fiction, Fiction - General, Archer, Lew (Fictitious ...
The Zebra Striped Hearse. by. Ross Macdonald. In this gripping detective novel, the protagonist, a seasoned private investigator, is hired by a concerned father to delve into the background of his daughter's enigmatic fiancé, fearing the man's intentions are less than honorable. The investigation swiftly spirals from a simple background check ...
