The Dain Curse

Zusatztext The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction 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 'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES Zusammenfassung 'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES

Product details

• Authors: Dashiell Hammett
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.02.2012
• EAN: 9781409138051
• ISBN: 978-1-4091-3805-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Murder Room
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Classic crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives