The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett Penguin Classics Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Modern

The Last Novel From Unsurpassed Master Of American Detective Fiction Dashiell Hammett\ S Thin Man Is A Genre-Defining Mystery Published In Penguin Modern Classics Ex-Detective Nick Charles Plans To Spend Quiet Christmas Holed Up Hotel Suite With His Glamorous Wife Nora Their Pet Schnauzer And Case Good Scotch But Then Bullet-Riddled Corpse Missing Inventor (Not Mention Attentions Beautiful Young Woman) Force Him Out Retirement Back Into Business Trying Make Sense False Leads Suspicious Alibis Mistaken Identities Are Thrown World Gangsters Hoodlums Speakeasies Where No-One Can Be Trusted Hammett Was Credited Inventing Hardboiled Crime This Story Murder Mayhem Manhattan Its Breakneck Plot Snappy Dialogue - Hard-Drinking Wisecracking Couple One Most Thrillingly Enjoyable Mysteries Dashiel Samuel (1894-1961) Born On Farm Southern Maryland Grew Philadelphia Baltimore He Left School At Age Fourteen After Various Jobs Became An Operative For Pinkerton\ Agency First War Intervened Soon Turned Writing Becoming During 1920S Unquestioned Detective-Story America Maltese Falcon (1930) (1932) Glass Key (1931) Among Famous Novels If You Enjoyed Might Like Raymond Chandler\ Big Sleep Other Also Available \ Ace Performer\ Chandler Author Sleep\ Exuberance Language Relish Which Seediness Described It\ Pleasure Imagine Cutting Loose Whatever Rascally High Jinks Could Cook Up\ Margaret Atwood Blind Assassin Σελίδες: 240 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm