The Zebra-Striped Hearse

by Ross Macdonald

Overview

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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 keep crossing the son-in-law's—and Archer's—in a powerful, fast-paced novel of murder on the California coast.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307780843
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/16/2011
Series:	Lew Archer Series , #10
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	148,556
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Canada, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983.

Editorial Reviews

Published in 1949, 1961, and 1962, respectively, these three titles find gumshoe Lew Archer up to his neck in murder, kidnapping, and blackmailjust another day at the office. This is hard-boiled detective writing at the top of its form.

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