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Jan 27, 2022 · 346.2M. 1 online resource. 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.
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Jan 28, 2010 · The zebra-striped hearse. by. Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983. Publication date. 1970. Publisher. New York, Bantam Books. Collection.
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
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.
Sep 2, 2024 · by Steve Powell. 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 6, 2022 · This barely-there scene portrays what is possibly the first description of California hippies in a novel — announced by the zebra-striped hearse as witnessed by Lew Archer.
