by Ross Macdonald · El País. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496246683
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«El martillo azul» is the crime novel by Ross Macdonald, published by El País in 2004 in paperback (299 pages, in Spanish).
Detective Lew Archer, at sixty, investigates the theft of a portrait of a beautiful woman, the work of an artist missing for twenty-five years. The case complicates when corpses linked to the painter appear, and Archer uses listening and intelligence to unravel the human conflicts behind the mystery.
«El martillo azul» belongs to the Lew Archer series, its 18th installment. Original title: The Blue Hammer (1976).
For fans of hard-boiled and police series with psychological depth.
Kenneth Millar, known mainly by the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works have received attention in academic circles for their psychological depth, sense of place, use of language, sophisticated imagery and integration of philosophy into genre fiction. Brought up in the province of Ontario, Canada, Macdonald eventually settled in the state of California, where he died in 1983.
