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3) Complete novels: Red harvest ; The Dain curse ; The Maltese falcon ; The glass key ; The thin man
Author
Series
Library of America volume 110
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel." "The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume, have become part of modern American culture, creating archetypal characters and establishing the ground rules for a whole tradition of hardboiled writing." "Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929), a raucous and nightmarish...
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction. In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife." "His Brother's Keeper" is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed him. "The Second-Story Angel"...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 125
Language
English
Description
In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: twenty-four in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version of his novel The Thin Man. Mixing melodramatic...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 263
Language
English
Description
Three novels involving private detectives and shady characters tackle homicide, treachery, and corruption. In the Maltese falcon, after the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye, Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette. In the Thin man, Nick Charles searches for a wealthy inventor who is the prime suspect in a New York City murder case. In the Red harvest, when Continental Op arrives in the western town of Personville...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 307
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of works by one of the most popular writers of American, hard-boiled crime fiction features the tough, antihero detective, the Continental Op, who narrates four linked stories and the novel, "The Dain Curse."
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The thin man: Nick and Nora Charles, New York's coolest crime-solving couple, are caught in a complicated web of confused identities and cold-blooded murder when a pretty blonde asks for help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick's client.
The Maltese falcon: Legendary PI Sam Spade, a loner who follows his own code and the rules of the street, zeros in on his partner's killer and the famous jewel-encrusted bird.
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