Author: Dashiell Hammett, Dashiell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983732584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Dashiell Hammett was an American author of detective crime fiction and short stories. As a young man he started his career at the Pinkerton Detective Agency as an operative. Hammett wrote most of his fiction while living in San Francisco in the 1920's using street locations and characters based on people he knew personally. He is currently known as the dean of the "hard-boiled" school of detective fiction. Although his short writing career included 5 novels, 54 short stories, 18 published collections of short stories and 4 screenplays, his most popular and memorable characters are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).
The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
Author: Dashiell Hammett, Dashiell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983732584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Dashiell Hammett was an American author of detective crime fiction and short stories. As a young man he started his career at the Pinkerton Detective Agency as an operative. Hammett wrote most of his fiction while living in San Francisco in the 1920's using street locations and characters based on people he knew personally. He is currently known as the dean of the "hard-boiled" school of detective fiction. Although his short writing career included 5 novels, 54 short stories, 18 published collections of short stories and 4 screenplays, his most popular and memorable characters are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983732584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Dashiell Hammett was an American author of detective crime fiction and short stories. As a young man he started his career at the Pinkerton Detective Agency as an operative. Hammett wrote most of his fiction while living in San Francisco in the 1920's using street locations and characters based on people he knew personally. He is currently known as the dean of the "hard-boiled" school of detective fiction. Although his short writing career included 5 novels, 54 short stories, 18 published collections of short stories and 4 screenplays, his most popular and memorable characters are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).
The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" by Dashiell Hammett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" by Dashiell Hammett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Adventures of Sam Spade
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782382262382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
"The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" is a collection of seven short stories (three of them with Detective Sam Spade), written by American author of detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961): * Too Many Have Lived * They Can Only Hang You Once * A Man Called Spade * The Assistant Murderer * Night Shade * The Judge Laughed Last * His Brother's Keeper.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782382262382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
"The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" is a collection of seven short stories (three of them with Detective Sam Spade), written by American author of detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961): * Too Many Have Lived * They Can Only Hang You Once * A Man Called Spade * The Assistant Murderer * Night Shade * The Judge Laughed Last * His Brother's Keeper.
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher:
ISBN: 3745000080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This collection of seven short stories named "The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" was written in 1924 by American author Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961).
Publisher:
ISBN: 3745000080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This collection of seven short stories named "The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" was written in 1924 by American author Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961).
Spade & Archer
Author: Joe Gores
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030727148X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett’s beloved detective, Sam Spade. It’s 1921—seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He’s just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets off to a quick start, working cases (he doesn’t do domestic) and hiring a bright young secretary named Effie Perrine. When he’s hired by a prominent San Francisco banker to find his missing son, Spade gets the break he’s been looking for. He spends the next few years dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, and bumbling cops. He brings in Miles Archer as a partner to help bolster the agency, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. All along, Spade will tangle with an enigmatic villain who holds a long-standing grudge against Spade. And, of course, he’ll fall in love—though it won’t turn out for the best. It never does with dames.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030727148X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett’s beloved detective, Sam Spade. It’s 1921—seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He’s just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets off to a quick start, working cases (he doesn’t do domestic) and hiring a bright young secretary named Effie Perrine. When he’s hired by a prominent San Francisco banker to find his missing son, Spade gets the break he’s been looking for. He spends the next few years dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, and bumbling cops. He brings in Miles Archer as a partner to help bolster the agency, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. All along, Spade will tangle with an enigmatic villain who holds a long-standing grudge against Spade. And, of course, he’ll fall in love—though it won’t turn out for the best. It never does with dames.
The Maltese Falcon
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The fragrant Miss Wonderley hires Sam Spade, a private detective, to track down her sister, who has eloped with an immoral man called Floyd Thursby. But trouble finds Spade when his partner Miles Archer gets shot while on Thursby's trail. "The Maltese Falcon" is a classic mystery novel that shaped how writers told detective stories.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The fragrant Miss Wonderley hires Sam Spade, a private detective, to track down her sister, who has eloped with an immoral man called Floyd Thursby. But trouble finds Spade when his partner Miles Archer gets shot while on Thursby's trail. "The Maltese Falcon" is a classic mystery novel that shaped how writers told detective stories.
They Can Only Hang You Once and Other Stories
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private investigators
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private investigators
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Big Book of the Continental Op
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0525432957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op—one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction. Dashiell Hammett is the father of modern hard-boiled detective stories. His legendary works have been lauded for almost one hundred years by fans, and his novel The Maltese Falcon was adapted into a classic film starring Humphrey Bogart. One of Dashiell Hammett's most memorable characters, the Continental Op made his debut in Black Mask magazine on October 1, 1923, narrating the first of twenty-eight stories and two novels that would change forever the face of detective fiction. The Op is a tough, wry, unglamorous gumshoe who has inspired a following that is both global and enduring. He has been published in periodicals, paperback digests, and short story collections, but until now, he has never, in all his ninety-two years, had the whole of his exploits contained in one book. The book features all twenty-eight of the original standalone Continental Op stories, the original serialized versions of Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, and previously unpublished material. This anthology of Continental Op stories is the only complete, one-volume work of its kind.
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0525432957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op—one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction. Dashiell Hammett is the father of modern hard-boiled detective stories. His legendary works have been lauded for almost one hundred years by fans, and his novel The Maltese Falcon was adapted into a classic film starring Humphrey Bogart. One of Dashiell Hammett's most memorable characters, the Continental Op made his debut in Black Mask magazine on October 1, 1923, narrating the first of twenty-eight stories and two novels that would change forever the face of detective fiction. The Op is a tough, wry, unglamorous gumshoe who has inspired a following that is both global and enduring. He has been published in periodicals, paperback digests, and short story collections, but until now, he has never, in all his ninety-two years, had the whole of his exploits contained in one book. The book features all twenty-eight of the original standalone Continental Op stories, the original serialized versions of Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, and previously unpublished material. This anthology of Continental Op stories is the only complete, one-volume work of its kind.
Woman in the Dark
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667660136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
On a dark night a young woman seeks refuge at an isolated house. She is hurt and frightened. The man and woman who live there take her in. But their decency is utterly unequipped to deal with the Woman in the Dark, or with the designs of the men who want her.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667660136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
On a dark night a young woman seeks refuge at an isolated house. She is hurt and frightened. The man and woman who live there take her in. But their decency is utterly unequipped to deal with the Woman in the Dark, or with the designs of the men who want her.