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The Zebra Striped Hearse 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
Crime Story (TV Series 1986–1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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 ...
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.
Today Patrick reviews The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald. Raymond Chandler is known for creating mean streets on which his detective, Phillip Marlowe, would walk. Ross Macdonald, however, took the hardboiled genre in a new direction by creating Lew Archer, a private detective who was sensitive.
