The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
672
Utgivningsdatum
2000-11-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Everyman's Library
Medarbetare
Polito, Robert (introd.)
Dimensioner
210 x 130 x 35 mm
Vikt
720 g
ISBN
9781857152630

The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest

av Dashiell Hammett
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Inbunden,  Engelska, 2000-11-01
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As an operative for Pinkertons Detective Agency Dashiell Hammett knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. These three celebrated novels are therefore the products of a hard real life, not a literary education. Despite or because of that, Hammett had an enormous effect on mainstream writers between the wars. Like his readers, they were attracted by the combination of laconic style, sharp convincing dialogue, vivid settings and, above all, the low-life, hard-boiled characters who populate the streets of his stories. Taking detective fiction out of the drawing-room, Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it, as Raymond Chandler said. In so doing, he left his mark on modern fiction.
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Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) is recognized as the first master of hard-boiled detective fiction. His lean writing style, cynical characters and complex plots brought a new energy to pulp magazines then went on to define the genre in movies, radio and television where the private eye series became an entertainment staple. Hammett wrote more than 80 short stories and five novels: "Red Harvest" (1929), "The Dain Curse" (1929), "The Maltese Falcon" (1930), "The Glass Key" (1931) and "The Thin Man" (1934). He created tough guys Sam Spade and the Continental Op as well as debonaire sleuths Nick and Nora Charles. He wrote a comic strip ("Secret Agent X-9"), an original radio series ("The Fat Man") and worked on numerous scripts, often simply to polish dialogue. Hammett's crisp, colorful language brought gangster slang into everyday speech.

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