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The Zebra-Striped Hearse (Lew Archer, #10)
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bookshelves: 1960s, 20th-century, 20th-century-fiction, american, book-10, crime, detective, dysfunctional-families, fiction, kapk, murder-mystery, murder, novel, novels, series, sequels
Aug 24, 2018
bookshelves: 1960s, 20th-century, 20th-century-fiction, american, book-10, crime, detective, dysfunctional-families, fiction, kapk, murder-mystery, murder, novel, novels, series, sequels
3.5
If you want to know what the story is about besides that it is a classic, hardboiled detective novel that dates from 1962--so expect women to be written pretty much the way they were in these sorts of novels back then--nothing contemporary about it, read the blurb ;).
This is the first Lew Archer book that I can remember reading (quite possible I've read him before and forgotten), and I liked it better than I thought I would. Truth be told, I read it for the Z,because it was shortish and it was hard to find a book starting with Z I could easily get that I felt like reading this summer. I like it better than the Philip Marlowe books and I didn't even listen to an audiobook, although before I got engrossed in the book I did imagine a hardboiled detective voice in my head to get me in the mood. I almost want to give it 4 stars, but I have a feeling that I read it at just the right time so I'm playing it safe as suspect that at another time it would have been closer to 3 stars, and certainly there were parts that weren't my style of writing.
Clearly, Ross Mcdonald knew how to spin this sort of tale, which isn't generally my cup of tea.
If you want to know what the story is about besides that it is a classic, hardboiled detective novel that dates from 1962--so expect women to be written pretty much the way they were in these sorts of novels back then--nothing contemporary about it, read the blurb ;).
This is the first Lew Archer book that I can remember reading (quite possible I've read him before and forgotten), and I liked it better than I thought I would. Truth be told, I read it for the Z,because it was shortish and it was hard to find a book starting with Z I could easily get that I felt like reading this summer. I like it better than the Philip Marlowe books and I didn't even listen to an audiobook, although before I got engrossed in the book I did imagine a hardboiled detective voice in my head to get me in the mood. I almost want to give it 4 stars, but I have a feeling that I read it at just the right time so I'm playing it safe as suspect that at another time it would have been closer to 3 stars, and certainly there were parts that weren't my style of writing.
Clearly, Ross Mcdonald knew how to spin this sort of tale, which isn't generally my cup of tea.
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