Recommended reading - The Zebra-Striped Hearse

The Zebra-Striped Hearse

by Ross Macdonald.
 
First published in 1962.
Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0375701451
ISBN-13: 978-0375701450
 
“Ross Macdonald gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago Tribune.
 

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 Ross Macdonald’s private eye is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlán. 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.

 

“A model of his excellence…. [The Zebra-Striped Hearse] has character, statement, and style.” – The New Yorker.