#10 Lew Archer

The Zebra-Striped Hearse

Ross Macdonald
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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.
Genres: MysteryFictionCrimeNoirDetectiveMystery ThrillerHard BoiledThrillerClassicsAudiobook
288 Pages

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