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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
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 ...
Jan 28, 2010 · Movies; News & Public Affairs; ... The zebra-striped hearse by Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983. ... Full catalog record MARCXML. plus-circle Add Review.
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.
Aug 29, 2014 · Lew Archer is a decent sort in a tragic world, trying to help the victims of violent crime while bringing the guilty party to justice. In The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Macondald’s mystery is fairly clued, with complexity that could match wits with a Golden Ag author any day.
Jul 13, 2023 · Joel and Ethan Coen to reunite to write and direct ‘The Zebra Striped Hearse,’ which is in development at Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures. Based on the eponymous novel by Ross Macdonald, the film follows the private eye Lew Archer, who is hired by Colonel and Mrs. Blackwell to dig deep into the life of their prospective son-in-law, an ...
Jan 5, 2019 · In The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Archer is hired by Mark Blackwell to investigate his daughter Harriet’s fiancé, Burke Damis, with a view to preventing their marriage. The implication is made that Mark sees Damis as a rival for his daughter’s love.
