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ISBN: 9781409138068 - The Big Knockover The Big Knockover
Dashiell Hammett

ISBN10: 1409138062  ISBN13: 9781409138068
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Apr 2012
'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' BOSTON GLOBE Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. Short, squat and as stubborn as... More

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ISBN: 9781409138075 - The Continental Op The Continental Op
Dashiell Hammett

ISBN10: 1409138070  ISBN13: 9781409138075
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Apr 2012
'An acknowledged literary landmark' Robert Graves Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great... More

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ISBN: 9780752865331 - The Maltese Falcon The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett

ISBN10: 0752865331  ISBN13: 9780752865331
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 24 Mar 2005
One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid... More

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ISBN: 9781409138044 - The Glass Key The Glass Key
Dashiell Hammett

ISBN10: 1409138046  ISBN13: 9781409138044
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Feb 2012
Hammett's strangest and most personal work. Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett... More

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ISBN: 9781409138051 - The Dain Curse The Dain Curse
Dashiell Hammett

ISBN10: 1409138054  ISBN13: 9781409138051
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Feb 2012
'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. More

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ISBN: 9780241962527 - The Thin Man The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett

ISBN10: 0241962528  ISBN13: 9780241962527
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2012
Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist... More

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ISBN: 9780141194608 - The Thin Man The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett

ISBN10: 014119460X  ISBN13: 9780141194608
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 24 Feb 2011
Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet Schnauzer and a case of good Scotch. But then a bullet-riddled corpse and a missing inventor (not to mention the... More

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ISBN: 9780752847641 - The Maltese Falcon The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett

ISBN10: 0752847643  ISBN13: 9780752847641
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 21 Mar 2002
The greatest crime novel of the 20th century launches Orion's Crime Masterworks series THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) set the standard by which the private eye genre is judged. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister... More

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ISBN: 9781857152630 - The Maltese Falcon The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett

ISBN10: 1857152638  ISBN13: 9781857152630
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Nov 2000

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ISBN: 9781841593074 - Dashiell Hammett Omnibus Dashiell Hammett Omnibus
Dashiell Hammett

ISBN10: 1841593079  ISBN13: 9781841593074
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 21 Sep 2007
Includes four linked stories - "The House in Turk Street", "The Girl with the Silver Eyes", "The Big Knockover" and "$106,000 Blood Money" - featuring the Continental Op, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective. With his diamond-sharp prose and... More