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Author Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961.

Title The Dain curse, The glass key, and selected stories / Dashiell Hammett ; with an introduction by James Ellroy.

Imprint New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.52 H183d 2007    ---  Available
Description xxvii, 633 pages ; 22 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Everyman's library ; 307
Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 307.
Note "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Contents Introduction -- Selected bibliography -- Chronology -- The House in Turk Street -- The Girl with the silver eyes -- The Big knockover -- $106,000 blood money -- The Dain curse -- The Glass key.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page xv).
Summary A compilation of works by one of the most popular writers of American, hard-boiled crime fiction features the tough, antihero detective, the Continental Op, who narrates four linked stories and the novel, "The Dain Curse."
Subject Detective and mystery stories, American.
Continental Op (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Private investigators in literature.
Continental Op (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00876669
Detective and mystery stories, American. (OCoLC)fst00891483
Private investigators in literature. (OCoLC)fst01077512
Mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Genre/Form Detective and mystery stories.
Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Mystery fiction.
Short stories.
Detective and mystery stories.
Added Author Ellroy, James, 1948-
Added Title Glass key and selected stories
ISBN 9780307266699
0307266699
Standard No. 99818312766

 
    
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