Product Description: Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid...read more

Powerful novels by the famous master of the detective genre include baffling cases for his private eyes, Sam Spade and Nick Charles

A hurt and frightened woman pursued by mysterious and menacing strangers, is taken in by a couple in an isolated house

A hurt and frightened woman, pursued by mysterious, menacing strangers, is taken in by a couple in an isolated house

Product Description: Complete in one volume, the five books that created the modern American crime novelIn a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel. In the words of Raymond Chandler, "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse...read more

A murder investigation requires Detective Sam Spade to become involved in a dangerous search for a valuable statue.

A comic strip portrays the adventures of a spy as he fights to defeat the plots of deadly criminals and enemy agents

Five modern suspense novels feature Sam Spade and Nick Charles among other daring detectives