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 Continental Op, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective. In The Dain Curse, the Op takes on a wealthy young woman who appears to be the victim of a deadly family curse. And in The Glass Key - Hammett's own favourite among his works ...
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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 Continental Op, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective. In The Dain Curse, the Op takes on a wealthy young woman who appears to be the victim of a deadly family curse. And in The Glass Key - Hammett's own favourite among his works - we encounter his most cynical, morally ambiguous hero and a hard-boiled version of a love triangle. In the works collected here, we can observe the process by which Hammett both stripped crime fiction down to its most subtle and searing essentials and elevated it to high literature.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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New. 2007. 0th Edition. Hardcover. 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 Continental Op, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 131 x 36. Weight in Grams: 702......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Fine in good jacket. Hardcover in orange cloth boldly lettered in black. 267 pp. Reissue, published the same year as the Knopf edition. Contains "Red Harvest", "The Dain Curse", and "The Maltese Falcon". Fine, bright example, binding firm, offsetting to the endpapers, usual embrowning to the pages. In the original pictorial dust jacket featuring the same elegantly suited fellow that appeared on the jacket of "The Thin Man". Short closed tear top left front panel, narrow scrape with some loss to the front gutter fold and some wear about the edges and spine ends. Very scarce in dust jacket in either edition.
