Dashiell Hammett

Broschiertes Buch

The Thin Man

Beschreibung

Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet Schnauzer and a case of good Scotch. But then a bullet-riddled corpse and a missing inventor (not to mention the attentions of a beautiful young woman) force him out of retirement and back into business.

Autor

Dashiel Samuel Hammett was born in 1894 and grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He left school at the age of fourteen, and after various jobs became an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency. World War I intervened, and Hammett soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Thin Man (1932) and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most famous novels. He died in 1961.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9780141194608
• ISBN-10: 014119460X
• Artikelnr.: 32220540

Rezensionen

Harsh lights and romantic black shadows: this is the heyday of American crime writing Guardian