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Crime Story (TV Series 1986–1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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
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Later, in The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962), Archer confronts a clan torn asunder by the conflicting aspirations of two members, one a dictatorial but fallible father who wants to celebrate his family's heritage, the other his daughter determined to break away and achieve her own identity at any cost.
Jan 5, 2019 · In The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Archer is hired by Mark Blackwell to investigate his daughter Harriet’s fiancé, Burke Damis, with a view to preventing their marriage. The implication is made that Mark sees Damis as a rival for his daughter’s love.
Lew Archer #10. The Zebra-Striped Hearse. Ross Macdonald. 4.10. 2,516 ratings217 reviews. 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.
Apr 20, 2016 · Coming a generation after Raymond Chandler and his Philip Marlowe and Dashiell Hammett and his Sam Spade, who were center stage during the boom of crime fiction and Hollywood noir in the 1930s and 1940s, Macdonald had to defend his choice to write crime novels, as if the genre were fully tapped.
