The sometime Pinkerton Detective, the consumptive and the drunk, the pioneer of noir writing, the bleak defier of McCarthy, the jailbird, the writer, and the Hollywood icon.
Dashiell Hammett wrote only five books. This is the sixth.
Dashiell Hammet was the author of the world famous MALTESE FALCON which changed the face of crime writing forever. He died in 1961.
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Dashiell Hammett, born in 1894, is the author of five of the most famous classic noir novels ever written, including The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man.
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Book Description Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # GRP82755223
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Book Description paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book is warped Bumped edges. Sun Damage to edge of pages. Appears unread, may have minor damage from transit/storage. Next day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries. Seller Inventory # mon0000658140
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Mysterious Press/ Head of Zeus, New York / London. 2012. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 233 pp 8vo. In these three novellas, the author brought back his classic characters, retired private investigator Nick Charles and his former debutante wife Nora, who return home to find Nora's family gardener murdered, pulling the couple back into another deadly game of cat and mouse. Hammett has written three fully satisfying "Thin Man" stories, with classic, barbed Hammett dialogue and fully developed characters. They are After the Thin Man, Another Thin Man, and Sequel to the Thin Man which were written for movies, but never published in print form. A clean very presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 016820
Book Description paperback. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller. Seller Inventory # mon0000465909