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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 ...
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.
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
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.
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.
Set against the vivid backdrop of Southern California in the 1960s, the detective's journey leads him through a labyrinth of intriguing characters and twisted motives, where the truth is as elusive and shifting as the patterns on a zebra-striped hearse.
