The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest

As an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency Dashiell Hammett knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. These three celebrated novels are therefore the products of a hard real life, not a literary education. Despite – or because of – that, Hammett had an enormous effect on mainstream writers between the wars. Like his readers, they were attracted by the combination of laconic style, sharp convincing dialogue, vivid settings and, above all, the low-life, hard-boiled characters who populate the streets of his stories. Taking detective fiction out of the drawing-room, Hammett ‘gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it’, as Raymond Chandler said. In so doing, he left his mark on modern fiction.Author: Hammett, Dashiell,author
Contributors: Hammett, Dashiell,author
Binding: hardcover
Number Of Pages: 672
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Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis
Format: International Edition
Edition: 1
Published/Release Date: 23 Nov 2000
Format: Hardback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: Everyman
Author/Director/Artist: Dashiell Hammett
Dimension (cm): 211x135x37 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 38x212x137 mm
Item Weight (g): 717
Package Weight (g): 710