Hammett Crime Stories and Other Writings

Hardcover • 2001 • English

Hammett Crime Stories and Other Writings

By Dashiell Hammett

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About the book

In 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...Show more

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ISBN

9781931082006

Publisher

Library of America

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Hammett Crime Stories and Other Writings

Format

Hardcover

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