The Zebra-Striped Hearse
By Ross Macdonald.
First published in 1962.
Published by Vintage
Crime / Black Lizard.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0375701451
ISBN-13: 978-0375701450
“Ross Macdonald gives to
the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” –
Chicago Tribune.
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 Ross Macdonald’s private eye is
following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlán. And then there
is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose
path seems to keep crossing the son-in-law's – and Archer's – in a powerful,
fast-paced novel of murder on the California coast.
“A
model of his excellence…. [The Zebra-Striped Hearse] has character,
statement, and style.” – The New Yorker.
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