Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man
By Dashiell Hammett.
Description
Complete in one volume, the five books that created the modern American crime novelIn a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel. In the words of Raymond Chandler, "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.... He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes."The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume, have become part of mod...
ISBN(s)
1883011671, 9781883011673
