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- Title: Um carro funerário às riscas
- Author: Ross Macdonald
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- Page: 211
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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 effective mystery like Hearse features two distinct stories one narrative about the kind of crime we think we are investigating, and one about the kind of crime we discover at story s end In the truly excepti [...]
A wealthy guy hired Lew Archer to check on a background of his potential son in law He is suspicions of the latter and would love to find some dirt on him It also seems that he is the only one who does not like the guy him and the readers as I did not see the soon groom to be as a nice person Archer began digging only to uncover seemingly unrelated pile of dead bodies instead of any incriminating evidence The book was published in early sixties I was curious and a little afraid to check how the [...]
First things first, why is it called The Zebra Striped Hearse Yes, Archer does encounter the titular vehicle, but it s hardly of crucial importance to the story, at best only tangential to the investigation.So why name the whole book after it Of course the most simple and Occam s Razor answer is that once MacDonald coined the phrase he really, really liked it But it seems lazy to just stop there, so I m going to push further This is noticeably a novel about the generation gap More than once our [...]
I had to pull a momentary rip cord on my Ross Macdonald Chronological Reading Society of One and bail out of The Doomsters for this one I ll go back and finish it, The Galton Case, and The Wycherly Woman before moving on to The Chill But it s summer, and the upcoming meeting of my Surf Noir Summer Supper Club Alliteration Protection Society called I stripped my responsibilities to their skivvies and took the plunge First, what s sorta fun about this book is the extratextual history set in July, [...]
1962 The tenth Lew Archer novel, California, early sixties, pre hippies, WWII still well remembered, freeways under construction, roads uncrowded, the border with Mexico safe and porous, and a woman walks into Archer s office concerned about her ex The ex, a Colonel Blackwell, arrives later, concerned about his daughter, who s fallen for a penniless painter in Mexico Blackwell hires Archer to check out the painter whom he dislikes, distrusts, and wants out of his daughter s life The daughter sta [...]
BOOK 3 Mid 20th Century Crime ReadathonHere, I move from McBain s 1954 Cut Me In to 1962.HOOK 2 stars A mother and father Colonel Blackwell argue about their daughter s Harriet choice for a husband This age old trope simply isn t originalCE 3 Solid and steadyOT 4 It appears that a man named Burke Damis has killed and taken on the identity of the dead Quincy Ralph Simpson , who was killed with an ice pick through the heart Did Davis do it If so, why And why was the body buried at a certain, speci [...]
An excellent detective novel Macdonald was one of the best modern American writers.
In 2008 I wrote this I think this is the best detective novel ever written That takes some qualification and explanation, but I mean as a detective novel, with the emphasis on detective than novel I think the wrap up is perfect I ve read the story maybe four times in the last twenty five years, and just finished it again yesterday Besides the marvelous plot, there is marvelous development of character, marvelous witty observations, and the beginnings of the deeper psychological themes that were [...]
Let s get this out of the way from the start The Zebra Striped Hearse is a horrible name The name technically makes sense with the story but the name is just so bad that it s distractingif that makes any sense.Now the book itself, I found delightful A great mystery from start to finish that had so many twists and turns that I honestly kept guessing down to the last every pages Macdonald really put Archer through his paces in this one I can t think of another book where Archer had to travel to so [...]
This is one fine tale I sometimes find with detective stories that the plot gets a little too twisty and since it is meant as a light read I don t want to pay full attention, but this book has a clear path along the way to resolution And many fine turns of phrase One of the better ones I can recall
When trying to fill out my detective fiction reading with a broad spectrum spread across than two decades I stumbled across the names Russ Macdonald and Lew Archer While The Underground Man seems to be most frequently cited as Macdonald s best work to feature PI Lew Archer along with The Chill I was unable to acquire a copy and instead settled for the Edgar Award Winning The Zebra Striped Hearse While it lacks the incisive social commentary frequently attributed to The Underground Man it is sti [...]
I am on new ground here Although I read The Drowning Pool many years ago, what I knew then about Ross Macdonald, I have forgotten The Zebra Striped Hearse is an intricately plotted novel about a whole series of interconnected murders Until half the book is finished, the suspect is one man, a painter variously named Simpson, Damis, or Campion and then the suspicion starts shifting all over the place Before you ve finished the novel you will have reason to suspect everyone, maybe even Detective Le [...]
Really enjoyed the 2 books I ve read by him Sue Grafton said he influenced her writng, so I checked him out Set in southern CA, it s fun to learn about my adopted home during that time I enjoy his thought process, and the dialogue as he interviews witnesses and suspects MacDonald s books have helped inspire new generations of writers from Robert B Parker and Sue Grafton, to Roger Simon, Jonathan Kellerman, S.J Rozan, James Ellroy, and Richard Barre Macdonald s writing added psychological depth a [...]
Pretty good P.I mystery but the solution became clear to me about 80% through which I view as a negative in a mystery book.
I have been wanting to dip into Macdonald s Lew Archer series, and happened to find a cheap copy of one of the Library of America editions of his work three novels of the 1960s , so I started with this one I have no idea whether it s a good or bad starting point, but it s certainly a good mystery, with plenty of twists and turns Lots of good character work and scene setting as the hunt takes Archer from LA to Mexico to SF and Lake Tahoe Looking forward to reading of these.
4,5 , well constructed rolling plot changing suspects,suspictions,names, overlaying new traces and mysteries with purpose not to implode but outward going questions and covered with complicated half true whether irresponsible human beings and witnesses through the storyline dazing, intricating,misleading mistaking PI and police but police is only sideways part for investigation towards the surpising revealed end, uprising with 2 accidental events who are coat on beach and like end after end bys [...]
Another installment in the Lew Archer saga The usual oedipal psycho drama, but this time without the dry humor or the adrenaline action moments Just the sober pessimism Didn t work for me Ross Macdonald is no Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, and only by balancing the narrative with quality genre moments does he reach his peak Like King and Straub also look a hair away from real literature, but this impression collapses if they really do throw out the quality genre smoke and mirror with which they create t [...]
When I was still in grad school I attended a class about Ross MacDonald taught by a fellow student as his senior lecture I thought I knew who MacDonald was, but it turned out I was confusing him with another detective mystery writer named John D MacDonald a writer I had read as a teenager, but didn t remember being that impressed with My friend s lecture had an almost lyrical quality to it poetically rhapsodizing MacDonald s talents as if accompanied by a Chet Baker sound track It perked my inte [...]
Ross Macdonald s Lew Archer detective mystery, The Zebra Striped Hearse was one of the strangest, but creative, film noir stories I ve ever read Set in California and Mexico the main detective, Lew Archer, brought to mind Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon and Jack Nicholson in Chinatown Stylish, in a vintage late 50 s early 60 s way, the plot was contemporary enough to hold up since its initial publication It would even be an excellent choice for a contemporary screenplay created in the noir [...]
An Oldie but Goldie Xmas is prefect for revisiting Lew Archer.
Talk about a page tuner, this book grabbed me from page one, and I could not stop So had to get up early on Thanksgiving to finish this tantalizing mystery Once again, blown away by the cast of fascinating female characters both Isobel and Harriet are so persuasively drawn, and thr plot, of course, superb Bad news is I am coming go end of Lew Archer mysteries.
late masterpiece wonderfully complicated plot unearths years of duplicity, misbehavior, dysfunctional family relationships all perhaps symbolized by the use of the titular vehicle as a surfers car.
Typically great Macweaving three families and generations of mistakes into a complex tale of murder Love his meandering style as Archer discovers the past and its ineradicable clues to the present.
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Ross Macdonald s mysteries are always so satisfying I m tempted to call him the best This one is from 1961.
Very retro detective story.
One of the heirs of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald wrote a large number of hard boiled detective stories, many starring his most well known character, Private Detective Lew Archer Set mostly in southern California in the late 40s through the early 60s, they feature crisp, authentic dialogue, well drawn characters, intricate plotting and sharp pacing, all of which are on display in The Zebra Striped Hearse, a murder mystery that had me guessing almost up to the final page W [...]
This is one of his mid career novels, and I didn t enjoy it as much as Black Money Archer is visited by the wife of a potential client so that she can warn him about her husband Then the husband arrives He wants Archer to investigate a young man with who his daughter wants to elope Archer does so on the condition that he be able to investigate objectively Soon the daughter is missing and Archer goes in search of the artist who has several aliases and is wanted for murder.I would have rated it hi [...]
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I love him but this one didn t do it for me.