The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett [90]
Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72262-5
THE MALTESE FALCON
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter 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. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett’s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers.
Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72264-9
NIGHTMARE TOWN
Laconic coppers, lowlifes, and mysterious women double-and triple-cross their colleagues with practiced nonchalance. A man on a bender awakens in a small town with a dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts a brutal truth about her husband. Here is classic noir: hard-boiled descriptions to rival Hemingway, verbal exchanges punctuated with pistol shots and fisticuffs. Devilishly plotted, whip-smart, impassioned, Nightmare Town is a treasury of tales from America’s poet laureate of the dispossessed.
Fiction/Crime/978-0-375-70102-3
RED HARVEST
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.
Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72261-8
THE THIN MAN
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett’s most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72263-2
WOMAN IN THE DARK
On a dark night a young woman seeks refuge at an isolated house. She is hurt and frightened. The man and woman who live there take her in. But their decency is utterly unequipped to deal with the Woman in the Dark, or with the designs of the men who want her. First published in installments in Liberty magazine and now rediscovered after many years, Woman in the Dark shows Dashiell Hammett at the peak of his narrative powers.
Fiction/Crime/978-0-679-72265-6
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VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD
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First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Edition, August 1992
Copyright 1929, 1930 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Copyright renewed 1956, 1957 by Dashiell Hammett
All rights reserved under International
and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Vintage Books,
a division of Random House, Inc.,
New York, and simultaneously in Canada
by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc., New York, in 1930.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Hammett, Dashiell, 1894–1961.
The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett.—1st Vintage Books ed.
p. cm—(Vintage crime)
eISBN: 978-0-307-76751-6
I. Title.
PS3515.A4347M3 1989
813′ .S2–dcl9 91-50922
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