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100 1 _aHammett, Dashiell,
_d1894-1961.,
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240 1 0 _aWorks.
_kSelections.
_f2001
245 1 0 _aCrime stories and other writings /
_cDashiell Hammett.
_hPR
260 _aNew York :
_bLiterary Classics of the United States :
_c(c)2001.
260 _bDistributed by Penguin Books,
_c(c)2001.
300 _a934 pages ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
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490 1 _aThe Library of America ;
_v125
504 _a1 (pages 932-934).
505 0 0 _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.
530 _a2
530 _aAlso issued online.
650 0 _aDetective and mystery stories, American.
700 1 _aLibrary of America (Firm)
830 0 _aLibrary of America ;
_v125.
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