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The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories: Dashiell Hammett (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories: Dashiell Hammett (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

by Dashiell Hammett (Author)

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    Hardcover 2007

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 688
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Everyman
Published: 21 Sep 2007
ISBN 10: 1841593079
ISBN 13: 9781841593074
Book Overview: Four fabulous linked stories from the master of hard boiled crime. Introduced by James Ellroy, author of The Black Dahlia

Author Bio
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 then 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.