The Blue Hammer (Signed First Edition)

Kenneth Millar writing as Ross Macdonald

ISBN 10: 0394404254 / ISBN 13: 9780394404257

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1976

About this Item

First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. The 18th Lew Archer novel. Board edges lightly faded, else about Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 157934

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Blue Hammer (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394404254
• ISBN 13: 9780394404257
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Hard-boiled Crime Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Hired to find a purloined painting, reputedly the work of a man who vanished in 1950, Lew Archer unveils an assemblage of murder and family rivalry and deceit

Review

The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only 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 Detective Lew 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.