"Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons." --Raymond Chandler "As a novelist of realistic intrigue, Hammett was unsurpassed in his own or any time... We all came out from under Hammett's black mask."" -- Ross Macdonald Dashiell Hammett was an...
An early 1920's classic novelette by legendary hard-boiled mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. This is one of his earlier works and will be celebrating it's 100 year anniversary in the very near future.
Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer, and political activist. Among his enduring character creations are Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, the Continental Op, and P. I. Rush, introduced in this book, who...