Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781409138082
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Vendor
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Vekt
201 gr
Høyde
195 mm
Bredde
133 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224
Forfatter
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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.
'An acknowledged literary landmark' [Robert Graves] from 'The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction' [New York Times]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 meant taking on the entire town...
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'An acknowledged literary landmark' [Robert Graves] from 'The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction' [New York Times]
His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow
'An acknowledged literary landmark' Robert Graves
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781409138082
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Vendor
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Vekt
201 gr
Høyde
195 mm
Bredde
133 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224
Forfatter