The Zebra-Striped Hearse (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Softcover

Macdonald, Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375701451 ISBN 13: 9780375701450

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

From AudioFile:

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-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375701451
• ISBN 13: 9780375701450
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288