Dashiell Hammett
2) Complete novels: Red harvest ; The Dain curse ; The Maltese falcon ; The glass key ; The thin man
Author
Series
Library of America volume 110
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel. The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume, have become part of modern American culture, creating archetypal characters and establishing the ground rules for a whole tradition of hardboiled writing. Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929), a raucous and nightmarish evocation...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
Description
This volume contains five of Hammett's novels, four of which were transformed into motion pictures. His stories of unmatched suspense are exciting and well plotted and portray the corruptions in American society and the undercurrent of violence that runs through American life. ISBN 0-394-43860-4 : $19.95.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington D.C. after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends at the German Embassy that Kurt is working with an anti-Nazi underground group in Germany. He tries to blackmail Kurt. Kurt shoots him and must flee. When Sara hears no more of Kurt, she knows that her oldest son Joshua...
11) Red harvest
Author
Series
Publisher
ImPress Mystery
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 125
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Author
Series
Ace performer collection volume 1
Publisher
Vince Emery Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In this fully casted audio dramatization, a beautiful damsel in distress hires San Francisco private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer to trail the man whom she thinks kidnapped her sister. When Archer is murdered on a stakeout, however, Spade is implicated in the crime. However, that is only the tip of the iceberg. As Spade digs deeper into the case, he uncovers a much greater mystery involving a valuable statue and an assortment of colorful...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 307
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of works by one of the most popular writers of American, hard-boiled crime fiction features the tough, antihero detective, the Continental Op, who narrates four linked stories and the novel, "The Dain Curse."
19) The thin man
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The thin man: "The start of it all! Nick and Nora Charles invite you to bring your own alibi to Dashiell Hammett's jaunty whodunit about a missing inventor that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing"--Container.
After the thin man: "New Year's Eve and a new mystery surrounding the philandering husband of Nora's cousin. Round up the usual suspects, including James Stewart in an early screen role."--Container.
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