BLUE CITY

by Kenneth Millar

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First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Millar's third novel, published under his own name, before his creation of Lew Archer and adoption of the Ross Macdonald pen name. The texture of the world in this novel is reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett's fiction, though its sensibility and imagery show the influence of Raymond Chandler as well ... The mixture of Hammett's harsh world of political corruption

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