The Blue Hammer
Kindle Edition
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Ebook · April 8, 2008
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A sharp, prestige-leaning crime read with enough grit to keep things pleasantly unsentimental.
- Genres
- Hard-Boiled Mystery, Private Eye Fiction
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, April 8, 2008
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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.
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He left behind a bevy of muses, molls, dolls, and dames-each one scrambling for what they thought was rightfully theirs.
Hard-Boiled Pressure
A sharp, prestige-leaning crime read with enough grit to keep things pleasantly unsentimental.
Come here for
- hard-boiled pull with a layered, serious edge
- conversation fuel for crime-fiction people
Expect
- category-hopping mystery textures
- the steady pleasure of a sustained narrative
Where it sits
| Hard-Boiled Mystery | 87% |
|---|---|
| Private Eye Fiction | 65% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hard-Boiled Mystery
- Private Eye Fiction
- Suspense
- Authors
- Ross Macdonald
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- April 8, 2008
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Hard-Boiled Mystery