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Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
23.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoro ...Show more
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Murder Room Ser.
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that mea ...Show more
The Big Knockover - Selected Stories and Short Novels by Dashiell Hammett; Lillian Hellman (Editor)
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Vintage Crime Ser.
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jo ...Show more
The Continental Op: Short Story Collection by Dashiell Hammett
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are t ...Show more
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Murder Room Ser.
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 aro ...Show more
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Vintage Crime Ser.
Dashiell Hammett's strangest and most personal work - 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett ...Show more
The Maltese Falcon (PB) by Dashiell Hammett
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Murder Room Ser. | Reading Level: good
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both ...Show more
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Penguin Essentials
'When I opened my eyes and sat up in bed Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom doorway'. Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled ...Show more
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