The Big Knockover (Paperback)

Dashiell Hammett (author)

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Paperback 448 Pages
Published: 12/04/2012

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Synopsis

'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' BOSTON GLOBE

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. In the stories in THE BIG KNOCKOVER, the job means solving the bank heist to end all bank heists, taking on a gang of freebooters, cleaning up a vice-ridden hell in the desert and dealing with assorted colourful grifters like the Dis-and-Dat Kid, Alphabet Shorty McCoy and Bluepoint Vance.

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781409138068
Number of pages: 448
Weight: 360 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 30 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

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

He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer - BOSTON GLOBE

The first fully "hard-boiled" hero in American letters - NEW YORKER

Hammett's prose is clean and entirely unique. His characters are as sharp and economically defined as any in American literature - NEW YORK TIMES

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

Dashiell Hammett's crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré - GUARDIAN