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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 ...
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.
Live Music Archive Librivox Free Audio. Featured. All Audio; ... The zebra-striped hearse by Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983. ... Full catalog record MARCXML.
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 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.
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 · The Lew Archer tale I examine is The Zebra-Striped Hearse, which Ellroy has named as an influence on his latest novel The Enchanters. Enjoy the episode. Subscribe and spread the word.
