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The Glass Key: No.11 (CRIME MASTERWORKS)

The Glass Key: No.11 (CRIME MASTERWORKS)

by Dashiell Hammett (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoroughbred senator's daughter; but does he want it badly enough to commit murder? If he's innocent, who wants him in the frame? Beaumont must find out.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 18 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 0752851330
ISBN 13: 9780752851334
Book Overview: #12 in the Crime Masterworks series - a library of the finest crime novels and thrillers ever written 'THE GLASS KEY is the peak of Hammett's achievement, which is to say the peak of the crime writer's art in the twentieth century' - Julian Symons

Author Bio
B.1894, d.1961. After spells as newsboy, freight clerk, labourer, messenger, stevedore and advertising manager, Hammett became an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundation for his writing career.