# The Blue Hammer

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- Book: [The Blue Hammer](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-macdonald/the-blue-hammer) ([The Blue Hammer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-macdonald/the-blue-hammer.md))
- Authors: [Ross Macdonald](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-macdonald)
- Publisher: vintage_crime_black_lizard
- ISBN: 978-03-0727-906-4
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2008-04-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...