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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0375701028
ISBN-13: 9780375701023
Sep 2000
Publisher: Random House Inc
396 pages
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Original incarnations of the Continental Op, Sam Spade, and Nick Charles appear in this collection of twenty of Dashiell Hammett's more than one hundred works of short detective fiction. Most of the stories compiled here were first seen in the pulp magazine Black Mask and this assemblage includes the first book printing of "The First Thin Man"--the short story that would later become Hammett's classic mystery novel THE THIN MAN.
| Details | | Series: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Size | | Length: | 396 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"This collection of stories adds significantly to the amount of Hammett material in print....At their best, these stories are both terrifying and unexpectedly thrilling."
Bernstein
"[A] welcome collection of 20 long unavailable stories shot through with themes of the chaos of the world and the corruptibility of society."
Guardian (London) - Peter Guttridge (06/03/2001)
"An answered prayer for Hammett fans, and a revelation for any serious reader of detective fiction--even if the revelation is of how hard Hammett must have worked to spin his BLACK MASK straw into the gold of RED HARVEST and the MALTESE FALCON."
Kirkus Reviews (07/15/1999)
"[The stories] may not all be prizewinners, but by most any measurement, this collection rocks."
January Magazine - Kevin B. Smith (12/01/1999)
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