Hammett Maltese

Hammett, Dashiell: The Four Great Novels: The Dain Curse; The Glass Key; The Maltese Falcon; The Red Harvest (ORIGINAL COVER - OMNIBUS EDITION) Picador, 1983 ISBN: 0330268503

Collectible; Very Good Trade Paperback First Trade VG- SCARCE COPY 1ST PICADOR OMNIBUS PB WITH ATTRACTIVE ORIGINAL COVER ARTWORK. CLASSIC FULL-LENGTH EDITIONS OF 4 GREAT HAMMETT HARDBOILED NOVELS: THE DAIN CURSE; THE GLASS KEY; THE MALTESE FALCON; RED HARVEST. HARD TO FIND OMNIBUS OF THESE AT TIMES SAVAGE NOVELS, WHICH FORM THE PEAK OF HAMMETT'S OUTPUT. NEAR VG, UNMARKED COPY, WITH LIGHT SPINE CREASES AND SHELF-RUBBING ONLY. IMMEDIATE DISPATCH WORLDWIDE FROM UK HARDBOILED SPECIALIST - PLENTY OF CHANDLER/WOOLRICH/GOODIS AVAILABLE AND WILLIAM NOLAN'S BIOGRAPHY OF HAMMETT Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: True Crime/Mafia/Detective Fiction; ISBN: 0330268503. Inventory No: 006511.

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Hammett, Dashiell; McCauley, Kirby, and Greenberg, Martin H., and Gorman, Edward J. (Joint Editors): Nightmare Town: Stories, New York Vintage Books; Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2000 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0375701028
0375701028 Very Good

xvii, 396 pp.; 25 cm. Posthumously published. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. "Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction. 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 him. 'The Second-Story Angel' recounts one of the most novel cons ever devised. In seven stories, the tough and taciturn Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped, and the dead, and once again shows his uncanny ability to get at the truth. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. And the first study for The Thin Man sends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying. In Nightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett, America's poet laureate of the dispossessed, shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils. Whether they are trying to right wrongs or just trying to survive, all of them are rendered with Hammett's signature gifts for sharp-edged characters and blunt dialogue. Hammett said that his ambition was to elevate mystery fiction to the level of art. This collection of masterful stories clearly illustrates Hammett's success, and shows the remarkable range and variety of the fiction he produced. / Dashiell Hammett was born in St. Marys County, Maryland, in 1894. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He left school at the age of fourteen and held several jobs thereafter -- messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator, and stevedore. He finally became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. World War I, in which he served as a sergeant, interrupted his sleuthing and injured his health. When he was finally discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. Subsequently, he turned to writing, and in the late 1920s he became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. During World War II, Mr. Hammett again served in the army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. He died in 1961. His books The Big Knockover, The Continental Op, The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Thin Man, and Woman in the Dark are available in Vintage paperback." - Publisher. Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Hammett, Dashiell; McCauley, Kirby, and Greenberg, Martin H., and Gorman, Edward J. (Joint Editors): Nightmare Town: Stories, New York Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book 1999 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0375401113
0375401113 Fine

Half-cloth, xvii, 396 pp.; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Posthumously published. "Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction. 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 him. 'The Second-Story Angel' recounts one of the most novel cons ever devised. In seven stories, the tough and taciturn Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped, and the dead, and once again shows his uncanny ability to get at the truth. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. And the first study for The Thin Man sends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying. In Nightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett, America's poet laureate of the dispossessed, shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils. Whether they are trying to right wrongs or just trying to survive, all of them are rendered with Hammett's signature gifts for sharp-edged characters and blunt dialogue. Hammett said that his ambition was to elevate mystery fiction to the level of art. This collection of masterful stories clearly illustrates Hammett's success, and shows the remarkable range and variety of the fiction he produced. / Dashiell Hammett was born in St. Marys County, Maryland, in 1894. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He left school at the age of fourteen and held several jobs thereafter -- messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator, and stevedore. He finally became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. World War I, in which he served as a sergeant, interrupted his sleuthing and injured his health. When he was finally discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. Subsequently, he turned to writing, and in the late 1920s he became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. During World War II, Mr. Hammett again served in the army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. He died in 1961. His books The Big Knockover, The Continental Op, The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Thin Man, and Woman in the Dark are available in Vintage paperback." - Publisher. First Edition, First Printing Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Collectible; First Edition, First Printing

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Herron, Don. Dashiell Hammett Tour (Herron's Literary Walks in San Francisco). ISBN: 0939790025
Paperback. Softcover published 1982 by Dawn Heron Press. Only light wear: minor scuffs to card-stock covers. Very clean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. 95 pages; Bibliography; black-and-white photos and maps. Language: English. 'In two to three hours of leisurely walking you can see every place Dashiell Hammett is known to have lived in San Francisco and the majority of locales in his master mystery The Maltese Falcon. You'll also see several places where the Continental Op, a nameless short fat detective who was Hammett's longest-running character, shot it out with hard-boiled criminals. Follow Sam Spade in his quest for the fabled Maltese Falcon. Follow Hammett himself as he works for the Pinkerton Detective Agency on the infamous Fatty Arbuckle case. See the spot where Miles Archer, Spade's partner, met swift death in the fog. Discover a new San Francisco, the city as seen by its greatest mystery writer, with the Dashiell Hammett Tour. --- from the publisher. Keywords: travel guide, author..

Very Good.

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