The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories
Author | : Dashiell Hammett |
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Author | : Dashiell Hammett |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307767477 |
When eight diamonds are stolen from a prominent San Francisco family, the Continental Op is called in to investigate. But the missing jewels aren’t the only thing out of the ordinary. The man who reported the burglary ends up dead, ostensibly a suicide. His daughter, one of the suspects, Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett, has a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying. Might Gabrielle be the victim of an arcane family curse? Or is the truth about her stranger and even more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op’s most bizarre cases and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
Author | : Dashiell Hammett |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Continental Op (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 9781841593074 |
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crime fiction stripped down to its most subtle and searing essentials and, at the same time, elevated to literature. The diamond-sharp prose and artfully manipulated intrigue for which he is known are on full display in the four classic short stories and two riveting novels published here in one volume. The Continental Op, Hammetts anonymous antihero, was the indelible prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. Single-minded, emotionally detached, and decidedly unglamorous, he narrates the four linked stories collected hereThe House in Turk Street, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, The Big Knockover, and $106,000 Blood Money. In The Dain Curse, the Continental Op takes on his most bizarre case, that of a wealthy young woman who appears to be the victim of a deadly family curse. And The Glass Key Hammetts own favorite among his works features his most cynical and morally ambiguous hero, Ned Beaumont, caught in a hard-boiled love triangle.
Author | : Dashiell Hammett |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011-02-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307767493 |
Ned Beaumont is a gambler and a professional troubleshooter for his friend Paul Madvig, a cheerfully corrupt political power broker who aspires to greater things. Madvig has his eyes set on none other than the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. When the senator’s son turns up dead, Madvig becomes the prime suspect. But if he is innocent, then which of his dozens of enemies is doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett’s tour de force of crime fiction combines a bulletproof plot, authentically corrupt characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness. *With a new introduction by Laura Lippmann*
Author | : Dashiell Hammett |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 2007-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307266699 |
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crime fiction stripped down to its most subtle and searing essentials and, at the same time, elevated to literature. The diamond-sharp prose and artfully manipulated intrigue for which he is known are on full display in the four classic short stories and two riveting novels published here in one volume. The Continental Op, Hammett’s anonymous antihero, was the indelible prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. Single-minded, emotionally detached, and decidedly unglamorous, he narrates the four linked stories collected here—“The House in Turk Street,” “The Girl with the Silver Eyes,” “The Big Knockover,” and “$106,000 Blood Money.” In THE DAIN CURSE, the Continental Op takes on his most bizarre case, that of a wealthy young woman who appears to be the victim of a deadly family curse. And THE GLASS KEY—Hammett’s own favorite among his works—features his most cynical and morally ambiguous hero, Ned Beaumont, caught in a hard-boiled love triangle.
Author | : Dashiell Hammett |
Publisher | : MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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La corruption du monde des affaires et de la classe politique s'étale dans les romans et nouvelles de Hammett. Son privé de la Continental Op sera le protagoniste de la Moisson rouge et de Sang maudit. Le premier roman traite du thème de la municipalité pourrie nettoyée par une guerre entre bandes rivales déclenchée par l'Op. Le second nous plonge dans l'univers des sectes, de la manipulation des esprits et de la folie. Le Faucon maltais confirme le rôle du privé, garant d'une morale nécessaire : Sam Spade vengera le meurtre de son associé, quitte à livrer à la justice la coupable dont il est pourtant amoureux. La Clé de verre dévoile les rapports entre la politique et le gangstérisme. Un joueur professionnel, Ned Beaumont, mène l'enquête afin de disculper un ami accusé de meurtre en pleine période électorale.
Author | : Dashiell Hammett |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2010-12-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307767485 |
The steadfast and sturdy Continental Op has been summoned to the town of Personville—known as Poisonville—a dusty mining community splintered by competing factions of gangsters and petty criminals. The Op has been hired by Donald Willsson, publisher of the local newspaper, who gave little indication about the reason for the visit. No sooner does the Op arrive, than the body count begins to climb . . . starting with his client. With this last honest citizen of Poisonville murdered, the Op decides to stay on and force a reckoning—even if that means taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
Author | : Dashiell Hammett |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Continental Op (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 9780394726243 |
A routine investigation of a diamond robbery involves an insurance detective in a bizarre case of murder, and cult worship.
Author | : Dashiell Hammett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Continental Op (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 9780752851808 |
Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die - violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts and finds himself confronting something infinitely more dangerous. This is the Continental Op's most bizarre case.
Author | : Dashiell Hammett |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525432957 |
Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op—one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction. Dashiell Hammett is the father of modern hard-boiled detective stories. His legendary works have been lauded for almost one hundred years by fans, and his novel The Maltese Falcon was adapted into a classic film starring Humphrey Bogart. One of Dashiell Hammett's most memorable characters, the Continental Op made his debut in Black Mask magazine on October 1, 1923, narrating the first of twenty-eight stories and two novels that would change forever the face of detective fiction. The Op is a tough, wry, unglamorous gumshoe who has inspired a following that is both global and enduring. He has been published in periodicals, paperback digests, and short story collections, but until now, he has never, in all his ninety-two years, had the whole of his exploits contained in one book. The book features all twenty-eight of the original standalone Continental Op stories, the original serialized versions of Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, and previously unpublished material. This anthology of Continental Op stories is the only complete, one-volume work of its kind.