This author wrote a novel in which Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the life of a real estate developer. The protagonist of one of his works is the executor of the will of a character who invented the Tristero conspiracy. In that novel, he created a character who cheats on her husband Mucho with the lawyer Metzger. This author of Inherent Vice and creator of Oedipa Maas 
This author wrote a novel in which Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the life of a real estate developer. The protagonist of one of his works is the executor of the will of a character who invented the Tristero conspiracy. In that novel, he created a character who cheats on her husband Mucho with the lawyer Metzger. This author of Inherent Vice and creator of Oedipa Maas wrote a work in which Tyrone Slothrop searches for a V-2 rocket with serial number 00000. For 10 points, name this American author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.
This author wrote a novel in which Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the life of a real estate developer.
Thomas [Ruggles] Pynchon