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967 pages • hardcover • first pub 1942 • 11 editions
ISBN/UID: 9781883011673
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Library of America
Edition Pub Date: 30 Aug 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 • hardcover • 1942
ISBN/UID: 9781883011673
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Library of America
Edition Pub Date: 30 Aug 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....