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The Blue Hammer. The last novel Macdonald wrote is The Blue Hammer, and whether he consciously intended it to be the last, it provides in certain ways an appropriate conclusion to the bltadwin.ru is the first time, apart from a brief interlude in The Goodbye Look, that Archer has a romantic bltadwin.ru effects of a lack of love preoccupy all the Archer novels, and Archer recognizes in this book. Title: The Blue Hammer Author(s): Ross MacDonald ISBN: / (USA edition) Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA. To have been written when Macdonald was in the early stages of Alzheimer's, The Blue Hammer is a damned impressive book. Occasionally there's a faint but chilling indication that he knew something was wrong ("Mackendrick got the message by degrees, like a man becoming aware that he has an illness"), and it must have required tremendous bravery and dedication for him to complete the novel.
The Blue Hammer by Ross MacDonald is a tale of two cities. The coastal town of Santa Teresa, California and the isolated desert community of Copper City, Arizona. Chapter 1 finds veteran private eye Lew Archer at the Santa Teresa home of copper magnate Jack Biemeyer and his wife Ruth. The Blue Hammer was the last of Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer novels. It seems as if Macdonald could well have continued the series for several more years, as there was no diminution of his writing ability between The Moving Target () to The Blue Hammer (). The Blue Hammer was MacDonald's last completed novel. Though undiagnosed at the time, he was beginning to suffer from Alzheimer's; there are small slips in the narrative that he would have caught a few years earlier (A very minor one: Lew Archer has two separate meals on the same day because he suddenly remembers he hasn't eaten since breakfast--both times), and that got past the editor as well.
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