Dashiell Hammet The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Select (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected StoriesCondition: NewEAN: 9781841593074ISBN: 9781841593074Publisher: Everyman's LibraryFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/21/2007Item Height: 240mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 31mmItem Weight: 567gAuthor: Dashiell HammettLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1841593079Description: 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 young woman who appears to be the victim of a deadly family curse. And in The Glass Key - Hammett's own favourite among his works - we encounter his most cynical, morally ambiguous hero and a hard-boiled version of a love triangle. In the works collected here, we can observe the process by which Hammett both stripped crime fiction down to its most subtle and searing essentials and elevated it to high literature.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICSTopic: Crime Thrillers & MysteryRelease Year: 2007 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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