Ross Macdonald was a master at bringing those connections to life. When the two roads intersect, you have a violent crime.” Identifying the links between the past and the present enabled Archer to draw the fine line between guilt and innocence. They start out equally young on the road to becoming victims. People start out young on the road to becoming murderers. Today, they are as closely associated with Archer and his creator as any the author wrote.Īrcher explained his theory in stark existential terms: “The past is the key to the present. Those four words would long outlive the book. That’s how private detective Lew Archer sums up his investigation into three seemingly unrelated murders near the climax of The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Ross Macdonald’s 1962 classic California crime novel.
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