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_aHammett, Dashiell, _d1894-1961., _e1 |
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_aWorks. _kSelections. _f2001 |
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_aCrime stories and other writings / _cDashiell Hammett. _hPR |
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_aNew York : _bLiterary Classics of the United States : _c(c)2001. |
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_bDistributed by Penguin Books, _c(c)2001. |
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_a934 pages ; _c21 cm. |
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_aThe Library of America ; _v125 |
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_tArson plus _tSlippery fingers _tCrooked souls _tThe tenth clew _tZigzags of treachery _tThe house in Turk Street _tThe girl with the silver eyes _tWomen, politics and murder _tThe golden horseshoe _tNightmare town _tThe Whosis Kid _tThe scorched face _tDead yellow women _tThe gutting of Couffignal _tThe assistant murderer _tCreeping Siamese _tThe big knock-over _t106,000 blood money _tThe main death _tThis king business _tFly paper _tThe farewell murder _tWoman in the dark _tTwo sharp knives _tThe thin man: an early typescript _tFrom the memoirs of a private detective _t"Suggestions to detective story writers" |
520 | 0 | _aIn the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: 24 in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version of his novel The Thin Man. Mixing melodramatic panache and poker-faced comedy, a sensitivity to place and a perceptive grasp of social conflict, Hammett's stories are hard-edged entertainments for an era of headlong change and extravagant violence. For the heroic sagas of earlier eras Hammett substituted the up-tempo, devious, sometimes nearly nihilistic exploits of con men and blackmailers, fake spiritualists and thieving politicians, slumming socialites and deadpan assassins. As a guide through this underworld he created the Continental Op, the nameless, laconic detective, world-weary and unblinking, who serves as protagonist of most of these stories. The deliberately unheroic Op is separated only by his code of professionalism from the brutality and corruption that run rampant in stories such as "Zigzags of Treachery," "Dead Yellow Women," "Fly Paper," and "106,000 Blood Money." Hammett's years of experience as a Pinkerton detective give even his most outlandishly plotted mysteries a gritty credibility, and his intimate knowledge of San Francisco made him the perfect chronicler of that city's waterfronts, back alleys, police stations, and luxury hotels. By connecting crime fiction to the realities of American streets and American speech, his Black Mask stories opened up new vistas for generations of writers and readers. In the most comprehensive collection of his stories ever published, read the Hammett you've never read: reprinted here for the first time are the texts that originally appeared in the 1920's and 1930's pulps, without the cuts and revisions introduced by later editors. Also included are revealing essays and an early version of the novel The Thin Man. | |
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_aLibrary of America ; _v125. |
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