Southern California, 1970s. Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of the celebrated Richard Chantry, who vanished in 1950 from his home. It is the portrait of an unknown woman. Suddenly, Lew finds himself drawn into a web of family complications and masked brutalities stretching back fifty years, through a world where money talks or buys silence, where social prominence is a murderous weapon, where a heritage of lies and evasions pushes troubled men and women deeper into trouble. And ...
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Southern California, 1970s. Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of the celebrated Richard Chantry, who vanished in 1950 from his home. It is the portrait of an unknown woman. Suddenly, Lew finds himself drawn into a web of family complications and masked brutalities stretching back fifty years, through a world where money talks or buys silence, where social prominence is a murderous weapon, where a heritage of lies and evasions pushes troubled men and women deeper into trouble. And as he pursues the case, Archer himself is shaken as never before.
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Add this copy of The Blue Hammer: a Lew Archer Novel (the Crime Club) to cart. $6.88, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Ruby rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Knopf.
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Add this copy of Blue Hammer (the Crime Club) to cart. $26.99, very good condition, Sold by BARRY'S BARGAIN BIN rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from ISLIP TERRACE, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Collins.
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Reader copy. Publisher: Knopf Date of Publication: 1976 Binding: Hardcover Condition: This is the stated Knopf First Edition from 1976. Other than a tiny tear at the top of the DJ, both the DJ and the book are in minty-mint condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc. ---and the pages and binding are tight as a drum (they still crackle).
Add this copy of The Blue Hammer to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Folded Corner Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Endicott, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Alfred A Knopf.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾-9¾Tall; Type: Book First Edition. If you love detective novels, this book is for you. Slight tears to jacket.
