The Zebra Striped Hearse
A Lew Archer Novel

Loved this book. I think it is one of his best. This book is 218 pages but seems twice that long and not in a bad way. The prose is dense and yet economic not to be brushed over lightly but read slowly and savored. I am a big fan of Raymond Chandler and always will be but more and more I think Ross......more

The Zebra-Striped Hearse is a well-plotted novel, with a few surprising twists and turns. But, unlike most later Archers, although it is an effective mystery, it is not a superior one. The mediocre mystery features a victim and a half-dozen suspects, each equipped with a shiny red herring. The effect......more

Macdonald was formulaic in the best way. His old school hard boiled noirs relied on some excellent back and forth dialogue, complex yet satisfying mysteries and character motivation that relied on pop psychology which often sounded pretty credible. There were pitfalls too - characters shoehorned int......more

To πιο ψυχογραφικό και λιγότερο hard-boiled αστυνομικό μυθιστόρημα του MacDonald (1962), το οποίο αποδίδει μνεία στη 'Μικρή αδερφή', αφού ο 1ος φόνος γίνεται με παγοθραύστη/παγοκόφτη όπως και στο βιβλίο του Τσάντλερ. Η ιστορία τοποθετείται στις αρχές στις δεκαετίες του '60, και ένα μεγάλο μέρος της κ......more

My favorite joke in this particular Archer entry:"Too bad you can't keep track of your clients. Have they all flipped?" "Everybody's doing it. It's the new freedom."How you feel about the case that Lew is working on this time may depend on how you feel about its somewhat-protracted conclusion. As......more