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Dashiell Hammett's strangest and most personal work - 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy
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 himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic, moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoroughbred senator's daughter; but does he want it badly enough to commit murder? If he's innocent, who wants him in the frame? Beaumont must find out.
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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 himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic, moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoroughbred senator's daughter; but does he want it badly enough to commit murder? If he's innocent, who wants him in the frame? Beaumont must find out.
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Product details
- Paperback | 224 pages
- 130 x 198 x 20mm | 202g
- 02 Feb 2012
- Orion Publishing Co
- Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 1409138046
- 9781409138044
- 70,803
Review Text
Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best THE TIMES
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One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective story * SCOTSMAN * The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction * NEW YORK TIMES * His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow * INDEPENDENT * He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used -- Raymond Chandler He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer * BOSTON GLOBE * Great crime fiction started with Hammett -- James Ellroy Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best * THE TIMES *
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About Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland and worked in a number of menial jobs until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes RED HARVEST, THE MALTESE FALCON, THE GLASS KEY, THE THIN MAN and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.
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