SUNDAY SOLUTION:INNOCENT AMERICAN YOUTHS

The Saturday quote about fraternization came from one of the classic Lew Archer series The Zebra -Striped Hearse by Ross MacDonald published in 1962. 

In this novel Lew Archer starts out by looking for dirt on Colonel Blackwell's prospective son- in- law and as with all this California based series he is soon following a trail of corpses. His books are usually of a manageable length which was convenient because I read them for the first time when I was supposed to be reading textbooks.

This is a great series of detective books with some wonderfully evocative descriptions of California and California people, almost as good as Chandler.