Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s MacDonald Ross
Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s MacDonald Ross The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit…
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Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s MacDonald Ross
The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. Each reflects Macdonald's enduring concern with the hidden crimes and agonizing dysfunctions that haunt families from one generation to the next. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early 1960s).
In The Zebra-Striped Hearse, a father's attempt to protect his daughter from "the complete and utter personal disaster" of marriage to a troubled drifter sends private detective Lew Archer on a perplexing and increasingly bloody trail that leads him from Mexico to Lake Tahoe and finally into the maze of a tragically splintered identity. In