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As An Operative For Pinkerton’s Detective Agency Dashiell Hammett Knew About Sleuthing From The Inside But His Career Was Cut Short By Ruin Of Health In World War I These Three Celebrated Novels Are Therefore Products A Hard Real Life Not Literary Education Despite – Or Because That Had Enormous Effect On Mainstream Writers Between Wars Like Readers They Were Attracted Combination Laconic Style Sharp Convincing Dialogue Vivid Settings And Above All Low-Life Hard-Boiled Characters Who Populate Streets Stories Taking Fiction Out Drawing-Room ‘Gave Murder Back To Kind People Commit It’ Raymond Chandler Said So Doing He Left Mark Modern Σελίδες: 672 Διαστάσεις: 13 5X13 5Cm