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Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Murder Room Ser.
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 himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoro ...Show more
Level 4: The Maltese Falcon Book & Multi-ROM with MP3 Pack by Hammett, Dashiell
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Pearson English Active Readers Ser.
Pearson English Active Readers present stories carefully written and graded across five levels for teachers of English who want to activate their students' language through reading, . From original stories, classic and contemporary fiction, to film adaptations and nonfiction titles, an integrated skil ...Show more
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Ser.
A brutal and realistic depiction of gang warfare, this gritty crime novel is also "an acknowledged literary landmark." - NY Times Book Review.
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Classic | Series: Murder Room Ser.
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that mea ...Show more
The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. Short, squat and as stubborn as a mule, the Op's only enthusiasm was doing his job and, in the stories in THE BIG KNOCKOVER, the job means solving the bank heist to end all bank heists, taking on a gang of freeb ...Show more
The Big Knockover - Selected Stories and Short Novels by Dashiell Hammett; Lillian Hellman (Editor)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Vintage Crime Ser.
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jo ...Show more
The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime Fiction
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with ...Show more
The Continental Op: Short Story Collection by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are t ...Show more
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die - violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective aro ...Show more
The Dain Curse, the Glass Key, and Selected Stories by Dashiell Hammett; James Ellroy
Category: Crime Fiction
"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 Conti ...Show more