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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]
The Zebra Striped Hearse, in true detective story and noirish fashion, opens with a damsel in distress. An impassioned plea from an attractive woman lands Lew Archer at something of an impasse potentially working towards a woman’s desire to see her step-daughter happy and working towards a father’s desire to protect his daughter from harm.
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
Jan 5, 2019 · The Zebra-Striped Hearse. The exploration of the relations among three generations of fathers and sons in The Galton Case was followed by examinations of father and daughter relationships in The Wycherly Woman and The Zebra-Striped Hearse. Macdonald always counted the latter among his favorites for its intensity and range.
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 character ...
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 ...
