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...Nelle C. Archer Tampa...
Rick has doubts about his new ambitions, which not even the renewed interest of a high school girl friend (Anne Archer) can resolve. He passes a great deal of time brooding in the sun, pulling swimmers out of the water and keeping order on the sands while he ponders the values in his life...
...failure, but their hero's softheadedness is contagious. Rick's final decision, which is to be a success on his own suffocatingly modest terms, is conveyed with a hint of melancholy but more than a suggestion of approval. Lifeguard is winningly acted-by Elliott and, especially, by Archer and Kathleen Quinlan, who appears as an infatuated teen-ager-but the people who put it all together may, like their hero, have spent a little too much time...
...Blue Hammer, Macdonald is once more obsessed with the sins of the fathers and mothers. Archer is hired to retrieve a stolen painting, the work of an artist named Richard Chantry, who disappeared without a trace 25 years earlier. Or did he? New paintings in the Chantry style begin cropping up; either they are forgeries or reports of the artist's death have been greatly exaggerated. Archer is soon contending with new murders and old graves, not to mention several wayward young people and a host of Chantry relatives, lovers and enemies...
First Love. Macdonald dexterously amasses Implausibly complex evidence. Happily, this book is stripped of the ponderous gothic ruminations that began to infect Archer's thinking several novels ago. Even under the influence of his first love affair in years, the detective manages to toe the line between world-weariness and sentimentality. If The Blue Hammer does not rank with Macdonald's best, the blame can be laid partially to earlier successes. The author's formula has by now entered the public domain. Not only do his characters seem to know this-and to act out their parts...