Maltese Falcon

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) is recognized as the first master of hard-boiled detective fiction. His lean writing style, cynical characters and complex plots brought a new energy to pulp magazines then went on to define the genre in movies, radio and television where the private eye series became an entertainment staple. Hammett wrote more than 80 short stories and five novels: "Red Harvest" (1929), "The Dain Curse" (1929), "The Maltese Falcon" (1930), "The Glass Key" (1931) and "The Thin Man" (1934). He created tough guys Sam Spade and the Continental Op as well as debonaire sleuths Nick and Nora Charles. He wrote a comic strip ("Secret Agent X-9"), an original radio series ("The Fat Man") and worked on numerous scripts, often simply to polish dialogue. Hammett's crisp, colorful language brought gangster slang into everyday speech. Zusammenfassung 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. Despite – or because of – that, Hammett had an enormous effect on mainstream writers between the wars.

Product details

• Authors: Dashiell Hammett
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2000
• EAN: 9781857152630
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-263-0
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library classics; Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, United States of America, USA, Crime and mystery fiction, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)