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Plot. Colonel and Mrs. Blackwell hire Archer to investigate their prospective son-in-law, an artist named Burke Damis. Blackwell believes Damis is marrying their daughter Harriet only for her money.
- Ross Macdonald
- 1962
Sep 2, 2024 · Ross Macdonald is considered one of the greatest writers of crime and detective fiction, and his Lew Archer were hugely influential and the genre and to James Ellroy in particular. So it is only naturally that Macdonald’s work would pop up on Ellroy Reads .
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 27, 2022 · The zebra-striped hearse. 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 hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose path seems to ...
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.
Aug 9, 2013 · The zebra-striped hearse. "Burke Damis was an arrogant artist/playboy who was just about to get his hooks into a half-million dollars in the beautiful form of a shapely heiress. Bruce Campion was wanted for the nylon-stocking murder of his honey-haired wife.
Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio. An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. ... The zebra-striped hearse by Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983. Publication date ...
