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The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald
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The Blue Hammer

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 2008-04-08

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Who It's For

  • Good for readers who enjoy Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled
  • Good for readers interested in crime
  • Good for fans of Mystery

What You Get

  • Themes: Series, Thriller, Crime.
  • Reading lane: Mystery & Detective.
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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What we read

  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled

    78%
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime

    77%
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British

    77%

About This Book

The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a brilliant artist who walked into the desert and simply disappeared. He left behind a bevy of muses, mol...

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The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a brilliant artist who walked into the desert and simply disappeared. He left behind a bevy of muses, molls, dolls, and dames-each one scrambling for what they thought was rightfully theirs.

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