num_pages: 524
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 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. He left behind a bevy of muses, molls, dolls, and dames-each one scrambling for what they thought was rightfully theirs.
language: English
title: The Blue Hammer
titlecomplete: The Blue Hammer
characters: Fred Johnson, Paul Grimes, Lew Archer, Doris Biemeyer, Ruth & Jack Biemeyer
genres: Hard Boiled, 20th Century, Crime, Noir, Detective, Thriller, Fiction, American, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 2038
series: Lew Archer
publisher: G K Hall & Co