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The Blue Hammer

The Blue Hammer

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by Ross Macdonald

Book Details

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2008
Language: en
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780307279064
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Moderate confidence: 75%

Looky Rating System Score adjusted for ages 13+

Moderate confidence (75%) — AI estimate from description and metadata.

Content Intensity

How strong or frequent is this content? Higher scores mean more intense content.

3
💥ViolenceModerate
3
❤️Love & RomanceModerate
2
🧠Mental HealthLow
2
💬!*$#LanguageLow
2
🍷🚬Substance UseLow
3
😨Fear / HorrorModerate

Story Themes

What is this book about? Higher scores mean the theme is more central to the plot — not a warning.

0
🧙Fantasy / SupernaturalNot present
0
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ RepresentationNot present
0
🚀Sci-Fi / FuturisticNot present
0
Disability & NeurodiversityNot present

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.

Themes & Topics

FictionMystery & DetectiveHard-BoiledPrivate InvestigatorsThrillersSuspense

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