Retirement suited Nick. He had a pretty wife, a Schnauzer and a taste for good scotch. All it took was a little persuasion: four bullets, a blonde, the newspapers, the cops, and a junked-up hoodlum in his bedroom. Nick Charles, former trans-American detective agency ace, was back in business.
Product Description: When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty—even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
9781609983611 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, November 15, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty—even if that meant taking on an entire town.
Product Description: A value-priced collection containing two of Dashiell Hammett's most legendary hardboiled detective novels. The Thin Man: Introducing Nick and Nora Charles, New York’s coolest crime-solving couple. Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick’s client...read more
9781609985097 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, October 18, 2011), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A value-priced collection containing two of Dashiell Hammett's most legendary hardboiled detective novels.
Product Description: From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D...read more
9781611744644, titled "The Maltese Falcon And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine: And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine" | Highbridge Co, September 1, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction.
Product Description: An exciting and must-have collection of classic, hard-boiled crime and espionage novels from masterful mystery writers in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers...read more
9780307700810 | Everymans Library, December 21, 2010, cover price $127.50 | About this edition: An exciting and must-have collection of classic, hard-boiled crime and espionage novels from masterful mystery writers in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers.
Product Description: A treasure worth killing for, a tough private eye with his own code of ethics, and a beautiful but treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime add up to a haunting gem of detective fiction, now fully dramatized.
9781433252488 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 30, 2008), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A treasure worth killing for, a tough private eye with his own code of ethics, and a beautiful but treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime add up to a haunting gem of detective fiction, now fully dramatized.
Product Description: A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime...read more
Product Description: A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime...read more
Product Description: A collection of some of the finest stories from Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.
9781600969713 | Lightning Source Inc, July 30, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of some of the finest stories from Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon.
Product Description: Dashiell Hammett, the creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of the 20th century’s most influential and entertaining authors. Even so, many of Hammett’s stories—including some of his best—have been out of the reach of anyone but a handful of scholars and collectors, until now...read more
9780972589819 | Vince Emery Prod, September 28, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Dashiell Hammett, the creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of the 20th century’s most influential and entertaining authors.
This collection brings together the very best of Dashiell Hammett's early stories featuring the Continental Op, the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.
9780752856179 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, July 15, 2004), cover price $12.35 | About this edition: This collection brings together the very best of Dashiell Hammett's early stories featuring the Continental Op, the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.
Product Description: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, first serialised in a magazine in 1930, is best known through the iconic Humphrey Bogart film of 1941. But it was the book that created the classic 'noir' genre with its tough private detective threading his cool way between the criminals and the law...read more
9780679740940 | Random House Inc, August 1, 1992, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: A treasure worth killing for.
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9781843794806, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Naxos Audio Books, March 1, 2011, cover price $41.98 | About this edition: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, first serialised in a magazine in 1930, is best known through the iconic Humphrey Bogart film of 1941.