Glass Key

Zusatztext One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective story Informationen zum Autor Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs - messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore - until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon , Red Harvest , The Glass Key , The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine. Klappentext Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy Vorwort Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . ' Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy Zusammenfassung Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy

Product details

• Authors: Dashiell Hammett
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.02.2012
• EAN: 9781409138044
• ISBN: 978-1-4091-3804-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Murder Room
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, Classic crime, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives