The Blue Hammer (Signed First Edition)

Kenneth Millar writing as Ross Macdonald

ISBN 10: 0394404254 / ISBN 13: 9780394404257

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1976

About this Item

First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. The 18th Lew Archer novel. Board edges lightly faded, else about Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 157934

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Blue Hammer (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394404254
• ISBN 13: 9780394404257
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Hard-boiled Crime Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Hired to find a purloined painting, reputedly the work of a man who vanished in 1950, Lew Archer unveils an assemblage of murder and family rivalry and deceit

About the Author

ROSS MACDONALD (1915-1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco but raised in British Columbia, he returned to the United States as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966.