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Jan 27, 2022 · 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. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose path seems to keep ...
Jan 28, 2010 · Live Music Archive Librivox Free Audio. Featured. All Audio; ... The zebra-striped hearse by Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983. ... Full catalog record MARCXML.
April 2008. Duration. 8 hours 2 minutes. Summary. Celebrated private eye Lew Archer is hired by a father intent on preventing the marriage of his daughter to a penniless and possibly murderous artist. The chase takes Archer from Mexico to Lake Tahoe and from the San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles as more than one murder crowds the investigation.
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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 .
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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.
Hired by an overprotective father (Asner) to stop the marriage of his daughter (Tilly) to a shiftless painter (Joe Pantoliano), private eye Lew Archer uncovers old secrets while chasing from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe, Malibu, and Mexico.
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.
