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The Complete Dashiell Hammett Short Story Collection - Vol. Ii - Unabridged eBook

by Dashiell Hammett
language: english
Publisher: Ft. Raphael Publishing Company, January of 2024 ‧
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Dashiell Hammett is universally regarded as one of the finest American writers of "hard boiled" detective fiction and his short stories and novels have been hailed as some of the best mystery stories ever written. Hammett would doubtless have gone down in literary history simply for his creation of the detective Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon") as well as Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man" series), but he is also the creator of another of the most popular detectives in fiction: the nameless private investigator known as the Continental Op, who appears in dozens of his stories.  


Collected here is the complete collection of Dashiell Hammett's short fiction (though, in fairness, it seems that a old, forgotten story is unearthed every few years and added to the canon). Volume II contains stories penned by Hammett from 1924 through 1925 (mostly for Black Mask magazine), a number of the most popular Continental Op stories.  


Thrilling, brutal, spine-tingling and just plain brilliant, no mystery collection would be complete without the collected works of the master of the genre: Dashiell Hammett.  

The Complete Dashiell Hammett Short Story Collection - Vol. Ii - Unabridged

by Dashiell Hammett

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ISBN: 9798892820219
Publisher: Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
Release Date: January of 2024
Language: English
Pages: 177
Format: eBook
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EAN: 9798892820219
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett nasceu em 1894, no estado de Maryland, EUA. Começou a trabalhar aos catorze anos para ajudar a sustentar a família e em 1915, tinha então vinte e um anos, foi contratado pela Agência de Detetives Pinkerton. Este período serviu-lhe de inspiração para a escrita de policiais. A sua carreira literária iniciou-se com a publicação de contos na revista Black Mask, protagonizados desde logo pelo investigador Continental Op, um verdadeiro "duro" com vinte anos de experiência, que seria o herói do seu livro de estreia, Colheita Sangrenta, lançado em 1929. O Falcão de Malta, publicado em 1930, é a primeira obra onde surge outra das suas personagens marcantes, o detetive Sam Spade, e continua a ser até hoje o seu livro mais famoso, tendo sido frequentemente transposto para o cinema. Completam a obra essencial de Hammett os títulos A Maldição dos Dain (1929), A Chave de Cristal (1931) e O Homem Sombra (1934). Juntamente com Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett introduziu o realismo nas histórias de detetives e é considerado o pai do género hard-boiled. Faleceu em Nova Iorque a 10 de janeiro de 1961.

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