Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a
rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all
Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan.
And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful,
sunburned surfers, whose path seems to keep crossing the son-in-law's
and Archer's in a powerful, fast-paced novel of murder on the California
coast."