The Blue Hammer: A Lew Archer Novel by Ross MacDonald

The Blue Hammer: A Lew Archer Novel

Lew Archer #18

Ross MacDonald

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fiction crime mystery adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
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In this masterful Macdonald mystery, 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. The era is the 1970s; the setting, Southern California. Lew Archer has ...

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