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The Glass Key - Murder Room (Paperback)
Dashiell Hammett (author)Published: 02/02/2012
Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy
'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES
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 thoroughbred senator's daughter; but does he want it badly enough to commit murder? If he's innocent, who wants him in the frame? Beaumont must find out.
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781409138044
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 202 g
Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 20 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best - THE TIMES
Great crime fiction started with Hammett - James Ellroy
He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer - BOSTON GLOBE
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used - Raymond Chandler
His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow - INDEPENDENT
The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction - NEW YORK TIMES
One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective story - SCOTSMAN
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