The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest

Name: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest
Brand: Dashiell Hammett
SKU: 9781857152630
Price: 16.50 GBP
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by Dashiell Hammett

Title:

Author:

Dashiell Hammett

Series (if any):

Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

672 pages

Publisher:

TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale

ISBN-13:

9781857152630

EAN:

9781857152630

Classifications:

Anthologies (non-poetry)

Weight (g):

844

Dimensions (mm):

216 x 140 x 43

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£16.50

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Description

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. These three celebrated novels are therefore the products of a hard real life, not a literary education. Despite - or because of - that, Hammett had an enormous effect on mainstream writers between the wars. Like his readers, they were attracted by the combination of laconic style, sharp convincing dialogue, vivid settings and, above all, the low-life, hard-boiled characters who populate the streets of his stories. Taking detective fiction out of the drawing-room, Hammett 'gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it', as Raymond Chandler said. In so doing, he left his mark on modern fiction.