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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 .
- 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.
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.
The Zebra Striped Hearse. Comedy, Crime | Announced. Private eye Lew Archer is hired by a young co-ed to find out why her wicked stepmother is draining her trust, when a lunkhead surfer leads him to a dead body. Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Ross Macdonald Novel. Joel Silver Producer. Critics reviews. Private eye Lou Archer is hired by a young co-ed to find out why her wicked stepmother is draining her trust, when a lunkhead surfer leads him to a dead body.
A zebra-striped hearse cruises the lonely (as depicted in this book) southern California beaches as Archer searches for a missing daughter and discovers more murder victims along the way. noir 10 likes
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.
