Dashiell Hammett
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English
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Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back?
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English
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Dashiell Hammett is universally regarded as one of the finest American writers of "hard boiled" detective fiction and his short stories and novels have been hailed as some of the best mystery stories ever written. Hammett would doubtless have gone down in literary history simply for his creation of the detective Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon") as well as Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man" series), but he is also the creator of another of the most...
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Series
Publisher
Wildside Press LLC
Language
English
Description
The Dashiell Hammett Megapack collects 20 early and rare stories by the famous mystery writer, plus one poem. Included in this volume are:
AFRAID OF A GUN
ARSON PLUS
THE NEW RACKET
BODIES PILED UP
DEATH ON PINE STREET
THE MAN WHO KILLED DAN ODAMS
MIKE, ALEC, OR RUFUS
NIGHT SHOTS
NIGHTMARE TOWN
ONE HOUR
THE ROAD HOME
RUFFIAN'S WIFE
THE SECOND-STORY ANGEL
THE TENTH CLUE
WHO KILLED BOB TEAL?
ZIGZAGS OF TREACHERY
THE
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English
Description
"Half the jobs that come to a private detective are like this one: three or four days-and often as many weeks-have passed since the crime was committed. The police work on the job until they are stumped; then the injured party calls in a private sleuth, dumps him down on a trail that is old and cold and badly trampled, and expects-Oh, well! I picked out this way of making a living so …"
As a detective with the San Francisco branch of the Continental...
6) Red harvest
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Language
English
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Description
When a hard-fighting detective arrives in Personville and finds that his client has been murdered, he decides to investigate local gangland activities.
11) Complete novels
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Series
Library of America volume 110
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
967 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
12) The glass key
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1931
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 125
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
934 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
16) Secret Agent X-9
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Series
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Secret Agent X-9 premiered in January 1934, King Features could proudly boast that its new adventure strip was written by the world's most famous mystery writer — Dashiell Hammett, the man who virtually invented the hard-boiled detective in such novels as The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and Red Harvest. The artist chosen was less well-known — at this point, Alex Raymond was merely an uncredited assistant on Tim Tyler's Luck and the humor...