The Zebra-Striped Hearse (Lew Archer Series #10)

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:	9780375701450
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/03/1998
Series:	Lew Archer Series , #10
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.19(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.63(d)

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.

Library Journal

Macdonald is one of the elite in hard-boiled mystery fiction. In his tenth book (1962), he again indulges us with the moody, smart-mouthed, introspective character of PI Lew Archer. The story--mostly set in Southern California--takes us inside people’s lives--we get to know them and sympathize with some of them. Tom Parker’s flat middle-American voice is well suited to the characterizations in this book. Parker’s rendition is a first-class reading. D.R.W. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine

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