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The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century.

 

A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, tangles with a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. The Thin Man introduces Hammett''s wittiest creations, Nick and Nora Charles, who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. And in Red Harvest, Hammett''s anonymous tough-guy detective, the Continental Op, takes on the entire town of Poisonville in a deadly war against corruption.

 

Dashiell Hammett is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer.—Boston Globe

 

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      Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
      Publication Date: 12/5/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780375411250, 978-0375411250
      ISBN10: 0375411259

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century.

       

      A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, tangles with a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. The Thin Man introduces Hammett''s wittiest creations, Nick and Nora Charles, who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. And in Red Harvest, Hammett''s anonymous tough-guy detective, the Continental Op, takes on the entire town of Poisonville in a deadly war against corruption.

       

      Dashiell Hammett is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer.—Boston Globe

       

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