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The Blue Hammer (Paperback)

by Ross Macdonald (Author)
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Southern California in the 1970s is the turf of Lew Archer, Macdonald's laconic private eye. In this case he's asked to find a painting by an artist who vanished in 1950. Archer digs through lies and evasions that have been festering for more than 20 years until he uncovers the startling truth. Tom Parker shows his talent as he captures the emotions of Archer, as well as the secondary characters, while maintaining the tempo of the story. Parker's tenor voice adapts well for the voices of the female characters in the novel. P.B.J. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.


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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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not the strongest Archer, Aug 12 2002
By C. Gilbert "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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Lew Archer is hired by a troubled couple to get a painting back that had been stolen from them. The painting may or may not be genuine and was painted by an artist who may or may not be dead. Add an addicted daughter, an earnest young man, an aged beauty, a drunken father and a strange cult and you have an Archer mystery.

One of the Archer strengths is the way he draws complex characters, rather than complex plots. One of the weaknesses of this book is that the vice is versa-- this is one of the most complex Archer plots that I've read, and without the bulk of pages to fill it out, the characters are correspondingly not as strong. This isn't to say that it isn't entertaining nor that there aren't high points (the character of Fred is noteworthy), but simply that there are better Macdonald novels out there.

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