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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 .
- Ross Macdonald
- 1962
The Zebra Striped Hearse cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Jul 13, 2023 · Joel and Ethan Coen to reunite to write and direct ‘The Zebra Striped Hearse,’ which is in development at Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures. Based on the eponymous novel by Ross Macdonald, the film follows the private eye Lew Archer, who is hired by Colonel and Mrs. Blackwell to dig deep into the life of their prospective son-in-law, an ...
Aug 29, 2014 · Macdonald’s The Zebra-Striped Hearse is an intricately plotted book that keeps twisting and turning long after you think it’s finished. The story revolves around Colonel Blackwell, who consults Lew Archer about his daughter, Harriet. A month ago, she met a man named Burke Damis in Mexico, and now she wants to marry him.
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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.
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.
