The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
ISBN-10
1841593079
ISBN-13
9781841593074
Publisher
Everyman
Imprint
Everyman's Library
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 21st, 2007
Print length
688 Pages
Weight
684 grams
Dimensions
20.80 x 13.10 x 3.60 cms
Product Classification:
Crime & mystery
Ksh 2,900.00
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This omnibus edition includes four linked stories - 'The House in Turk Street', 'The Girl with the Silver Eyes', 'The Big Knockover' and '$106,000 Blood Money - featuring the Continental Op, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective.
With his diamond-sharp prose and artfully handled intrigue, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented hard-boiled crime fiction. This omnibus edition includes four linked stories - ''The House in Turk Street'', ''The Girl with the Silver Eyes'', ''The Big Knockover'' and ''$106,000 Blood Money - featuring the Continental Op, Hammett''s anonymous tough-guy detective. In The Dain Curse, the Op takes on a wealthy young woman who appears to be the victim of a deadly family curse. And in The Glass Key - Hammett''s own favourite among his works - we encounter his most cynical, morally ambiguous hero and a hard-boiled version of a love triangle. In the works collected here, we can observe the process by which Hammett both stripped crime fiction down to its most subtle and searing essentials and elevated it to high literature.
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