The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories
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 S…
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Weitere Autoren: Ellroy, James
- ISBN: 978-0-307-26669-9
- EAN: 9780307266699
- Produktnummer: 2873203
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 664 S.
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Dashiell Hammett was born in Maryland in 1894 and died in 1961. After working as a private detective and serving in World War I, he turned to writing and became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America.James Ellroy is the author of The Black Dahlia, My Dark Places, and L. A. Confidential.
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