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967 pages • first pub 1942 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781883011673
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Library of America
Publication date: 30 August 1999
Description
In 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....
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967 pages • first pub 1942 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781883011673
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Library of America
Publication date: 30 August 1999
Description
In 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....
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Content Warnings