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....

Dashiell Hammett first wrote about the Continental Op, the short, fat, balding detective with no home, no name and no personal existence apart from his work, more than eighty years ago. In doing so he created one of the most enduring icons of modern......

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 with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - cant resist making a few enquiries. Clyde Miller Wynant, Julias lover and boss, has disappeared....

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....

Hammett\'s 1930 detective novel is widely regarded as the first and finest novel of the hard-boiled private detective. Sam Spade has a cold detachment, keen eye for detail and an unflinching determination to achieve his own justice....

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?...

Book DescriptionSam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters--detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants--in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossible to imagine modern American literature without Hammett....

New books in the Penguin Active Reading series, edited into simplified text together with exercises designed to develop language skills....

The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett\"s The Thin Man is a genre-defining mystery novel, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet Schnauzer and a case of good Scotch....

Сборник знакомит читателя с творчеством одного из классиков американской детективной литературы Дэшила Хемметта (1894—1961), произведения которого отличаются не только остротою сюжета, по и критическим изображением американской действительности. Издание включает послесловие и комментарии к тексту....

\\\"Curtis Colt didn\"t kill that liquor store woman, and that\"s a fact. It\"s not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that\"s what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn\"t belong in it, and I can prove it\\\". But can Curtis\"s girlfriend prove it?...

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......