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Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoro ...Show more
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Murder Room Ser.
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that mea ...Show more
The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. Short, squat and as stubborn as a mule, the Op's only enthusiasm was doing his job and, in the stories in THE BIG KNOCKOVER, the job means solving the bank heist to end all bank heists, taking on a gang of freeb ...Show more
The Continental Op: Short Story Collection by Dashiell Hammett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are t ...Show more
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die - violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective aro ...Show more
The Maltese Falcon (PB) by Dashiell Hammett
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Murder Room Ser. | Reading Level: good
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both ...Show more
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Essentials
'When I opened my eyes and sat up in bed Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom doorway'. Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled ...Show more
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