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The Glass Key
Dashiell Hammett
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Description for The Glass Key
Paperback. Dashiell Hammett's strangest and most personal work. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy
'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES
Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city.
Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic, moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoroughbred senator's daughter; but does he want it badly enough to commit murder? If he's innocent, who wants him in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409138044
SKU
V9781409138044
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99-50
About Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs - messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore - until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass ... Read more
Reviews for The Glass Key
Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best
THE TIMES
Great crime fiction started with Hammett
James Ellroy He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer
BOSTON GLOBE
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk ... Read more
THE TIMES
Great crime fiction started with Hammett
James Ellroy He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer
BOSTON GLOBE
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk ... Read more