Synopsis:
Shortlisted for the 2015 CWA Short Story Award
A new collection of crime stories from the legendary hard-boiled writer Dashiell Hammett. The author of classic novels The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon, Hammett has been called 'a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' (The Boston Globe), while Raymond Chandler raved that Hammett 'wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.' Two previously unseen 'Thin Man' novellas were recently published together as Return of the Thin Man, which garnered strong praise: the New York Journal of Books called it a reason to 'rediscover why Dashiell Hammett was the peerless master of crime fiction in all its dark and bloody glory,' while The Wall Street Journal praised it as 'an occasion for delight.' This new collection, The Hunter and Other Stories, includes several more never-before-published short stories, and, like the screen stories from Return of the Thin Man, the pieces here read as novellas, rich in both story and character, that no Hammett fan should do without.
Review:
"For aficionados of the genre, the unearthing of new Hammett stories is akin to Christians discovering an epilogue to the New Testament... These stories are among Hammett's best. . . . [His] prose is always savvy and sturdy, but for the man who invented 'hard-boiled', it can also be surprisingly elegant." --San Francisco Chronicle
"This fascinating collection of hitherto unpublished or ungathered tales... will be a treat for any fan of the father of the hardboiled detective story." --Wall Street Journal
"Hammett's talent allowed him to create moving and realistic characters using seemingly perfunctory details - the literary equivalent of a Picasso doodle... Any Hammett fan will surely want to peruse this... readable tome." --Columbus Dispatch
"Very entertaining writing... This book is a must-read." --Huntington News
"Hammett uses words like scalpels to surgically reveal slivers of seediness whether it concerns detectives or wronged men or wronged women. If you want to discover why Sam Spade's dad burst onto the scene like a 30s literary nova, here's your chance." --Will Durst, Progressive Magazine
"A pure pleasure to read." --Jeff Baker, OregonLive.com
"A labor of love... this collection is certainly a worthy monument to an important and brilliant literary career, one that reveals a heretofore hidden side of one of America's most important fiction authors." --Bookreporter.com
"Fans of crime writer Dashiell Hammett... have been waiting decades to read the stories collected in this book."-- Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Fascinating." --Booklist
"Tantalizing." --Detectives Beyond Borders
PRAISE FOR DASHIELL HAMMETT
"I think Hammett's stories are about the best there are." --Ross Macdonald
"Hammett's prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American Fiction." --New York Times
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