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The Zebra-Striped Hearse was praised by some critics, stating, for example that it had a "fantastic plot" and that "Lew Archer fit into the PI mold while still being his own unique creation". Terry Teachout 's appraisal was more negative; he found the Archer books "repetitive and often dully written" and The Zebra-Striped Hearse in particular was "perfectly readable" but marred by "dime-store ...
- Ross Macdonald
- 1962
27 janv. 2022 · 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
20 avr. 2016 · The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald (1962) The Library of America --Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s (2016) aa pp. Last year, The Library of America welcomed the great, though relatively unknown — at least, by me and others in my circle — crime writer Ross Macdonald to their line, publishing Ross Macdonald: Four Novels of the 1950s, which included The Way Some People ...
5 janv. 2019 · In The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Archer is hired by Mark Blackwell to investigate his daughter Harriet’s fiancé, Burke Damis, with a view to preventing their marriage. The implication is made that Mark sees Damis as a rival for his daughter’s love. Archer discovers that Damis is really Bruce Campion and is suspected of having murdered his wife, Dolly, and another man, Quincy Ralph Simpson ...
9 août 2013 · The zebra-striped hearse by Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983, author. Publication date 1984 Topics General, Fiction, Fiction - General, Archer, Lew (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Private investigators -- California, Southern -- Fiction, Mur ...
17 juin 2015 · The Zebra Striped Hearse, in true detective story and noirish fashion, opens with a damsel in distress. An impassioned plea from an attractive woman lands Lew Archer at something of an impasse potentially working towards a woman’s desire to see her step-daughter happy and working towards a father’s desire to protect his daughter from harm. Lew Archer is a PI cut from the same vein as ...
3 mars 2015 · About The Zebra-Striped Hearse. One ofThe 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 ...
