Physical description: 189 pages. Subjects: American fiction. Crime. Genre: Fiction.

The thin man

HAMMETT, Dashiell

Literature & Fiction

Penguin

Physical description: 413 pages. Subjects: American fiction. Crime. Genre: Fiction.

The Big Knockover and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books

The Thin Man: Green Popular Penguins

Penguin Classics

The Maltese Falcon

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Cassell

Red Harvest

Thrillers & Suspense

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crime fiction stripped down to its most subtle and searing essentials and, at the same time, elevated to literature. The diamond-sharp prose and artfully manipulated intrigue for which he is known are on full display in the four classic short stories and two riveting novels published here in one volume.
The Continental Op, Hammett’s anonymous antihero, was the indelible prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. Single-minded, emotionally detached, and decidedly unglamorous, he narrates the four linked stories collected here—“The House in Turk Street,” “The Girl with the Silver Eyes,” “The Big Knockover,” and “$106,000 Blood Money.” In THE DAIN CURSE, the Continental Op takes on his most bizarre case, that of a wealthy young woman who appears to be the victim of a deadly family curse. And THE GLASS KEY—Hammett’s own favorite among his works—features his most cynical and morally ambiguous hero, Ned Beaumont, caught in a hard-boiled love triangle.

The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories

United States

Everyman"s Library

A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon.

Classics

Alfred.A. Knopf

The Thin Man

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Dain Curse

Pan.

Elevating mystery fiction to the level of art, Hammett is one of the finest writers of the twentieth century: Nightmare Town is a stunning collection of twenty short stories with an introduction by Colin Dexter.In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unravelling the dark mystery at its heart. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story, 'Ruffian's Wife'. And the first study for The Thin Man sends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying. In Nightmare Town Hammett shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils . . . 'Hammett was spare, hard-boiled, but he did over and over what only the best writers can ever do. He wrotes scenes that seemed never to have been written before'Raymond Chandler

Nightmare Town: Twenty Long Unavailable Short Stories

Picador

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