The Zebra-Striped Hearse - Ross Macdonald, 1963
Retired military man Mark Blackwell hires PI Lew Archer to
investigate the fiancee of his daughter Harriet. Burke Damis claims to be a
painter, but opinionated and hard-charging Blackwell has convinced himself that
the artist is a phony who's after his daughter's trust fund. To Archer, the
case seems straight-forward, but things get complicated enough for him to
realize that three unrelated deaths are in fact the same case. This was the
tenth Lew Archer novel and it features social observations and lots of plot
twists told in language as literary as a mystery gets on this side of the
Atlantic. Though he is turning into a neglected writer as we enter the second
decade of the 21st century, Ross MacDonald is well-worth reading.
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