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Title:

Blue Hammer, The
 

Authors:

Genres:

Mystery

Series:

Lew Archer
18

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1976-00-00 Knopf  

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Blurb: 
Archer is hired to retrieve a stolen canvas believed to be the work of celebrated artist Richard Chantry, who vanished in 1950. The portrait is of an unknown woman. As Archer moves stealthly amongst the mystery of dealers and collectors, he finds himself drawn into a family of social prominence whose web of masked brutalities stretch back fifty years. A world where money talkes or buys silence and high society is murderous weapon. A heritage of lies, evasions and family hatred pushes troubled men and women deeper into trouble. Archer's involvement takes another turn when his solitary life takes another turn, when he is thrust into an encount with a woman who will further complicated his own.