The Zebra-Striped Hearse is a detective novel written in 1962 by American author Ross Macdonald, the tenth book featuring his private eye, Lew Archer.

From there, the search for the runaways takes Archer to San Francisco, Mexico, Nevada, and back to California, finding dead bodies linked to Damis along the way.

[2][3] Archer repeatedly encounters a group of surfers driving around in a zebra striped hearse, which gives the book its title.

[4] The Zebra-Striped Hearse was praised by some critics, stating, for example that it had a "fantastic plot" and that "Lew Archer fit into the PI mold while still being his own unique creation".

[2] Terry Teachout's appraisal was more negative; he found the Archer books "repetitive and often dully written" and The Zebra-Striped Hearse in particular was "perfectly readable" but marred by "dime-store psychologizing".