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Zusatztext Dashiell Hammett's crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré 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 'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' BOSTON GLOBE'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' BOSTON GLOBE Zusammenfassung 'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' BOSTON GLOBE

Product details

• Authors: Dashiell Hammett
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2012
• EAN: 9781409138068
• ISBN: 978-1-4091-3806-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Short Stories, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Classic crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Classic crime and mystery fiction