The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories
"The Dain Curse", "The Glass Key", and Selected Stories
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- Hardcover
688 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2007
Summary
Four fabulous linked stories from the master of hard-boiled crime.
With his diamond-sharp prose and artfully handled intrigue, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented hard-boiled crime fiction. This omnibus edition includes four linked stories - ‘The House in Turk Street’, ‘The Girl with the Silver Eyes’, ‘The Big Knockover’ and ‘$106,000 Blood Money’ - featuring the Continental Op, Hammett’s anonymous tough-guy detective.
In The Dain Curse, the Op takes on a wealthy youn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593074 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593079 |
| Author: | Dashiell Hammett |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 690g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 135mm x 35mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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About The Author
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) is recognized as the first master of hard-boiled detective fiction. His lean writing style, cynical characters, and complex plots brought a new energy to pulp magazines and went on to define the genre in movies, radio, and television, where the private eye series became an entertainment staple.
Hammett wrote more than 80 short stories and five novels: “Red Harvest” (1929), “The Dain Curse” (1929), “The Maltese Falcon” (1930), “The Glass Key” (1931), and “The Thin Man” (1934). He created tough guys Sam Spade and the Continental Op, as well as debonaire sleuths Nick and Nora Charles. He wrote a comic strip (“Secret Agent X-9”), an original radio series (“The Fat Man”), and worked on numerous scripts, often simply to polish dialogue. Hammett’s crisp, colorful language brought gangster slang into everyday speech.
INTRODUCER BIOGRAPHY: James Ellroy is the author of “The Black Dahlia,” “My Dark Places,” and “L.A. Confidential.”
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