Dashiell Hammett

The Glass Key

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy

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Produktdetails

• Murder Room
• Verlag: Orion Publishing Group
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 65887
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9781409138044
• ISBN-10: 1409138046
• Artikelnr.: 34384996

Autorenporträt

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs - messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore - until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.

Rezensionen

Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best THE TIMES