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Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels (Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man) (Library of America) by Dashiell Hammett, Steven Marcus

Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels (Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man) (Library of America) Dashiell Hammett, Steven Marcus ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 967
ISBN: 9781883011673
Publisher: Library of America

This is a nice compact hardback edition of Dashiell Hammett's five novels, which he wrote between 1929 and 1934. 1) Red Harvest by Hammett 2) Maltese Falcon by Hammett 3) Glass Key by Hammett 4) Dain Curse by Hammett 5) The Thin Man by Hammett (there's a pattern here, but that's because IMHO no one else has come close to Hammett in crime fiction) Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon 2. My early report is that Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op stories may be the best crime fiction ever written. It's full of double crossing, bluffing and mystery. This novel is If you want to have a one-volume deluxe edition of Hammett's 5 novels have a look at the Library of America hardback edition, also available through Amazon. American Pastoral, Philip Roth 6. Dashiell Hammett invented the modern crime novel, as well as the "hard-boiled detective" novel so admired by readers of Ed McBain and viewers of "CSI." His works include "Red Harvest," "The Dain Curse," "The Maltese Falcon" (there, that got your attention!), "The Glass Key" and "The Thin Man" (ah, see something else you remember?). I've taken a short holiday from international crime fiction to read some of the classic American variety. Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born on His family had lived in America for two centuries. Why is it that whenever you ask anybody about Dashiell Hammett the first novel that comes to their minds is “The Maltese Falcon”? In one eighteen-month period Hammett wrote The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key. Thieves Like Us / The Big Clock / … a Dead Man Library of America Robert Polito. Dashiell Hammett Complete Novels: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man (Library of America #110) [Hardcover]. Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key and The Thin Man are gathered in this real cloth-bound book. I've only read the novels and while most of them (excepting The Dain Curse) are great, The Maltese Falcon is my favourite. A veteran of Pinkerton But “Complete Novels” doesn't resemble a door stop. No shock there Marcus is the editor of Hammett's Crime Stories and Other Writings and Complete Novels for the Library of America. I should've made the complete Nero Wolfe one of my selections because no mystery writer's works have given me more joy than those.