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The Big Knockover (Crime Masterworks)

The Big Knockover (Crime Masterworks)

by Dashiell Hammett (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

Dashiell Hammett first wrote about the Continental Op, the short, fat, balding detective with no home, no name and no personal existence apart from his work, more than eighty years ago. In doing so he created one of the most enduring icons of modern times - the private eye, the isolated hero in a treacherous and brutal world. The Continental Op stories are among Hammett's finest and most colourful writing.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 448
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 15 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 0752867512
ISBN 13: 9780752867519
Book Overview: Includes an introduction by Lillian Hellman, Hammett's long-time companion '[Hammett] was writing stories of a man driven by a sense of duty, of righteousness. His was a morality no amount of professional detachment could dampen...when my linguistic circuits get clogged by reading too much bad prose I cleanse them with Hammett ... especially with a Continental Op story' Richard A Lupoff 'Not just the first of the tough school of crime writing, but the best' The Times 'Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse ... he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all' Raymond Chandler Hammett was the author The Maltese Falcon, 'Possibly the best American detective novel ever written', according to Otto Penzler, and is universally acknowledged as, alongside Raymond Chandler, one of the very greatest of all crime writers.

Author Bio
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland and worked in a number of menial jobs until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.