The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
Dashiell Hammett
480 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0679722599
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Language: English
Publish: 616662000000
AmericanClassicsCrimeDetectiveFictionHard BoiledMysteryMystery ThrillerNoirShort Stories
Hammett’s continental op – tough, tired, intelligent, a snap-brimmed Sir Galahad with a Browning – was the prototype for a whole new tradition of private eye thrillers.
Here are ten of his classic suspense stories from the twenties and thirties – selected and introduced by Lillian Hellman.