Dashiell Hammett
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Detective Sam Spade is a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. When his partner is killed during a stakeout, he is drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure with a dubious provenance—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. Also on the...
3) The thin man
Ned Beaumont is a gambler and a professional troubleshooter for his friend Paul Madvig, a cheerfully corrupt political power broker who aspires to greater things. Madvig has his eyes set on none other than the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. When the...
When eight diamonds are stolen from a prominent San Francisco family, the Continental Op is called in to investigate. But the missing jewels aren’t the only thing out of the ordinary. The man who reported the burglary ends up dead, ostensibly a suicide. His daughter, one of the suspects, Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett,...
In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife." "His Brother's Keeper" is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed...
The second volume of short stories featuring the adventures of crime fiction's most hardboiled sleuth: the Continental Op
Dan Rathbone locks the bonds in the company safe, fully aware that $100,000 is a deadly temptation. He's about to embark on a business trip, and he tells his partner that he only wants to be sure the papers are safe. But when Rathbone goes missing, his partner discovers that the funds have vanished along
Whether chasing debutants or gunning down killers, the legendary Continental Op doesn't miss a beat, in this collection of short stories from master of noir fiction Dashiell Hammett
From the day she was born, Sue Hambleton has wanted to tell her family to go to hell. Bred to be a debutante, Sue's more at home in the back alleys of the Bowery than the ballrooms of Fifth Avenue. When she's finally old enough, she bolts, shacking up with
10) Red harvest
The steadfast and sturdy Continental Op has been summoned to the town of Personville—known as Poisonville—a dusty mining community splintered by competing factions of gangsters and petty criminals. The Op has been hired by Donald Willsson, publisher of the local newspaper, who gave little indication...
This volume collects the novel The Maltese Falcon and 10 short stories by Dashiell Hammett: Too Many Have Lived, They Can Only Hang You Once, A Man Called Space, Afraid of a Gun, The Assistant Murderer, House Dick, Night Shade, The Judge Laughed Last, His Brother's Keeper, and The Man Who Killed Dan Odams.
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Introducing the Continental Op—legendary hardboiled sleuth—in the first of seven short-story collections featuring Dashiell Hammett's infamous detective
The house is soaked with gasoline, and it takes only a spark for it to be engulfed in flames. As the ruins smolder, the case-hardened operative from the Continental Detective Agency is the one person determined to untangle the tough questions: Who tossed the match and why?