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The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Vintage Crime Ser.
Dashiell Hammett's strangest and most personal work - 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett ...Show more
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Self | Series: Crime Masterworks
The greatest crime novel of the 20th century launches Orion's Crime Masterworks series
The Maltese Falcon (Collector's Library) by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Fiction
Hammett's 1930 detective novel is widely regarded as the first and finest novel of the hard-boiled private detective. Sam Spade has a cold detachment, keen eye for detail and an unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. Regarded by many as the greatest crime novel of the 20th century, it has ...Show more
The Maltese Falcon (PB) by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both ...Show more
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by HAMMETT DASHIELL
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century.'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow' IndependentSam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has el ...Show more
The Return of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Fiction
Although characters and stories like Sam Spade and The Maltese Falcon are famous the world over, Dashiel Hammett wrote only five full-length novels in his career. Now two new stories have been discovered in his papers. Following the enormous success of 'The Thin Man' movie in 1934, Hammett wrote two nov ...Show more
The Return of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Fiction
The sometime Pinkerton Detective, the consumptive and the drunk, the pioneer of noir writing, the bleak defier of McCarthy, the jailbird, the writer, and the Hollywood icon. Dashiell Hammett wrote only five books. This is the sixth. Dashiell Hammet was the author of the world famous MALTESE FALCON whic ...Show more
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A corpse. A missing Man. Can't an ex-detective retire in peace? Nick Charles sips a stiff drink. With his sassy wife Nora, his dog and a case of scotch the ex-sleuth prepares to enjoy Christmas in New York. But a few bullets, a murder, a missing man and a junked-up hoodlum in his bedroom soon send hi ...Show more
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Essentials
'When I opened my eyes and sat up in bed Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom doorway'. Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled ...Show more
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Classic Fiction
Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet Schnauzer and a case of good Scotch. But then a bullet-riddled corpse and a missing inventor (not to mention the attentions of a beautiful young woman) force him out of retirement ...Show more
The Thin Man (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Clyde Miller Wynant, Julia's lover ...Show more