The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald

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Book name:	The Zebra-Striped Hearse (2024)
Category:	Mystery
Author:	Ross Macdonald
Pages:	288 pages
ISBN13:	0375701451
ISBN:	0375701451
Language:	English
Publication data:	March 3, 1998, 8 a.m.

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 the author

Ross Macdonald

8 books

Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer.

Millar was born in Los Gatos, California, and raised in his parents' native Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, where he started college. When his father abandoned his family unexpectedly, Macdonald lived with his mother and various relatives, moving several times by his sixteenth year.… Read more