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The Four Great Novels: The Dain Curse / The Glass Key / The Maltese Falcon / Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett

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The genius of the American detective novel - Time Out

Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not with hand-wrought duelling pistols, curare and tropical fish. He took murder out of the Venetian vase and dropped it into the alley. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before - Raymond Chandler

Not just the first of a tough school of crime-writing but the best... Hammett had seen the rotten underbelly of his country and wanted others to see it - The Times

Hammett's is the America of Prohibition days and over all is the stink of corruption and cordite and hard liquor - Oxford Times

Nobody else ever did it quite like this, and no one has ever done it since - The Times Literary Supplement

Cover illustration by Nancy Slomins

Language: English

Pages: 784

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1930

ISBN 13: 9780330268509

The Four Great Novels: The Dain Curse / The Glass Key / The Maltese Falcon / Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett

0/5 ( ratings)

The genius of the American detective novel - Time Out

Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not with hand-wrought duelling pistols, curare and tropical fish. He took murder out of the Venetian vase and dropped it into the alley. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before - Raymond Chandler

Not just the first of a tough school of crime-writing but the best... Hammett had seen the rotten underbelly of his country and wanted others to see it - The Times

Hammett's is the America of Prohibition days and over all is the stink of corruption and cordite and hard liquor - Oxford Times

Nobody else ever did it quite like this, and no one has ever done it since - The Times Literary Supplement

Cover illustration by Nancy Slomins

Language: English

Pages: 784

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1930

ISBN 13: 9780330268509

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