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Book Jacket Status: Jacketed One of the most popular American
writers of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crime
fiction stripped down to its most subtle and searing essentials
and, at the same time, elevated to literature. The diamond-sharp
prose and artfully manipulated intrigue for which he is known are
on full display in the four classic short stories and two riveting
novels published here in one volume. The Continental Op, Hammett''s
anonymous antihero, was the indelible prototype for generations of
tough-guy detectives. Single-minded, emotionally detached, and
decidedly unglamorous, he narrates the four linked stories
collected here--"The House in Turk Street," "The Girl with the
Silver Eyes," "The Big Knockover," and "$106,000 Blood Money." In
THE DAIN CURSE, the Continental Op takes on his most bizarre case,
that of a wealthy young woman who appears to be the victim of a
deadly family curse. And THE GLASS KEY--Hammett''s own favorite
among his works--features his most cynical and morally ambiguous
hero, Ned Beaumont, caught in a hard-boiled love triangle.
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