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The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only 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 Detective Lew 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. He left behind a bevy of muses, molls, dolls, and dames-each one scrambling for what they thought was rightfully theirs.
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1通の書き置きを残し、25年前に姿を消した幻の画家、リチャード、チャントリー。彼の作とされる絵が盗まれ、アーチャーは、それを取戻すよう依頼を受けた。だが、画家が失踪当時住んでいた家に今も暮らす夫人は、問題の絵はチャントリーのものではないと言う。夫人が否定した絵が、何故チャントリーの作品と言われているのか?それとも、彼は今もどこかで絵を描きつづけているのか?事件を追い続けるアーチャーの前にやがて浮かび上がってきたのは、過去の殺人事件と画家をめぐる錯綜した人間関係だった。巨匠最後のハードボイルド長篇。
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6 人中、6人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
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ある富豪の家から一枚の絵が盗まれた。それは２５年前に消息を絶った幻の画家チャントリーの作品だった。私立探偵リュー・アーチャーは富豪の依頼で盗まれた絵を探すことになった。怪しい人物は娘のボーイフレンドであるフレッドという青年。美術専攻の学生である彼が絵を持ち去った可能性が高い。さっそくフレッドの実家を訪ねるアーチャー。彼の家庭は複雑な環境で、母親は看護婦として働き父親は極度のアルコール中毒の為に家に幽閉されている状態であった。そんな時フレッドが富豪の娘と二人で車で駆け落ちしたという情報が入る。アーチャーは二人を連れ戻しに向かいフレッドと会うことに成功したが、盗んだチャントリーの絵は自宅に置いていたが他の何者かに盗られたと言う。そして街では殺人事件が二件連続して起こった。いずれもチャントリーの絵を知る関係者が何者かに殺されたのだった。さらにアーチャーと仲良くなった新聞記者の女性ベティが、事件を追いかけている途中で行方不明になってしまう。彼女の安否を気遣ったアーチャーは、事件解明へと全力を注ぐ。
私立探偵リュー・アーチャーのラスト・ランとなった作品。シリーズは１８作品。最後になったこの作品の特色として５０歳代であるアーチャーが若い女性と結ばれるという場面がある。この意外で新しい展開に、アーチャーの人間性の魅力がより身近に感じられた。途中で消息が消えてしまった彼女を最後まで心配するアーチャーの姿。正義感というよりも彼の持つ優しさという面が強調されたからかもしれない。
最後の最後まで複雑な家系による悲劇を描き切った作家ロス・マクドナルド。今作のトリックも見事であった。ハードボイルド作品であるが、意表を突いたプロットの手腕はミステリー作家として資質充分であったと思う。さらに彼こそがミステリーを文学の域まで高めたとやはり思う。
私立探偵リュー・アーチャーのラスト・ランとなった作品。シリーズは１８作品。最後になったこの作品の特色として５０歳代であるアーチャーが若い女性と結ばれるという場面がある。この意外で新しい展開に、アーチャーの人間性の魅力がより身近に感じられた。途中で消息が消えてしまった彼女を最後まで心配するアーチャーの姿。正義感というよりも彼の持つ優しさという面が強調されたからかもしれない。
最後の最後まで複雑な家系による悲劇を描き切った作家ロス・マクドナルド。今作のトリックも見事であった。ハードボイルド作品であるが、意表を突いたプロットの手腕はミステリー作家として資質充分であったと思う。さらに彼こそがミステリーを文学の域まで高めたとやはり思う。
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15 人中、14人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The Last Lew Archer
2006/3/19
形式:カセット
This is, sadly to say, the last book that Kenneth Millar wrote before his eventually fatal illness. It is also, perhaps, the best. I say perhaps because his last fifteen or so books are so good that there is really no way to make any significant distinctions between them.
Like all Lew Archer books, this one features a large number of characters,many of whom are related to or have been involved with each other in in the past that they all wish was dead, but never is. This book, too begins with a small investigation, finding a missing person, but Archer always seems to be the pebble that starts the avalanche. The plot complicates, the pace quickens, the end comes like a Greek tragedy.
The plotting and suspence are wonderful, the setting is beautifully rendered, and the style is perfect. My wife is blind, and i have read many books to her. Macdonald and Tolkien are the best stylists we have run into.
I have read all of Macdonald's books at least twice and some of them several times. Like all the best books, even when you know how they turn out you still can't put them down.
Raymond Chandler is the great model for Macdonald, and, along with Doyle and Sayers, are my favorite mystery writers. Macdonald is better. I would rank him with Faulkner and Hemingway as one of the best American novelists of the Twentieth Century. I know there is a Library of America volume of Chandler. I hope soon we will have Macdonald as well. He deserves it.
Goodbye, Lew. It was an honor to know you.
Like all Lew Archer books, this one features a large number of characters,many of whom are related to or have been involved with each other in in the past that they all wish was dead, but never is. This book, too begins with a small investigation, finding a missing person, but Archer always seems to be the pebble that starts the avalanche. The plot complicates, the pace quickens, the end comes like a Greek tragedy.
The plotting and suspence are wonderful, the setting is beautifully rendered, and the style is perfect. My wife is blind, and i have read many books to her. Macdonald and Tolkien are the best stylists we have run into.
I have read all of Macdonald's books at least twice and some of them several times. Like all the best books, even when you know how they turn out you still can't put them down.
Raymond Chandler is the great model for Macdonald, and, along with Doyle and Sayers, are my favorite mystery writers. Macdonald is better. I would rank him with Faulkner and Hemingway as one of the best American novelists of the Twentieth Century. I know there is a Library of America volume of Chandler. I hope soon we will have Macdonald as well. He deserves it.
Goodbye, Lew. It was an honor to know you.
8 人中、8人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
An engaging mystery.
2004/12/7
形式:ハードカバー
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. He's been hired to locate a potentially valuable painting that is missing from their residence.
It doesn't take long for Archer to establish that the Biemeyer's flower child daughter, Doris, and her art student boyfriend, Fred Johnson, have something to do with the painting's disappearance. But the case takes a much more serious turn when, later that same night, the art dealer who originally sold the painting to Ruth Biemeyer is bludgeoned to death.
This intricately plotted mystery is less a story about stolen artwork or even murder than it is a study of family secrets reaching back over more than a generation. Lost love, jealousy, dysfunctional relationships, homosexuality and substance abuse all play a part in the interesting narrative that unfolds in the pages of this novel. And the ending is a really great one.
Well constructed and compelling, The Blue Hammer is first rate storytelling. Well worth reading.
It doesn't take long for Archer to establish that the Biemeyer's flower child daughter, Doris, and her art student boyfriend, Fred Johnson, have something to do with the painting's disappearance. But the case takes a much more serious turn when, later that same night, the art dealer who originally sold the painting to Ruth Biemeyer is bludgeoned to death.
This intricately plotted mystery is less a story about stolen artwork or even murder than it is a study of family secrets reaching back over more than a generation. Lost love, jealousy, dysfunctional relationships, homosexuality and substance abuse all play a part in the interesting narrative that unfolds in the pages of this novel. And the ending is a really great one.
Well constructed and compelling, The Blue Hammer is first rate storytelling. Well worth reading.
16 人中、13人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Top Notch, In Depth Mystery
1999/7/15
形式:ハードカバー
This is the second Ross MacDonald (Lew Archer) book that I have read. This was similar to the first one I read, "The Galton Case", in that it involved a twisted complex murder mystery involving a family and close acquaintances. Prior to reading "The Blue Hammer" I had read some negative reviews of the book. Maybe compared to MacDonald's other "Archer" novels "TBH" is weaker, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought this was a solid mystery and enjoy the "Archer" character very much. The only negative remark I can make about "TBH" is that there are so many characters in it that sometimes it gets confusing keeping up with them all. Having said that I still believe this is a solid piece of work, and for MacDonald's last installment in the "Archer" series I think he did a fine job. Now my problem is deciding which "Archer" book to read next.
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