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Dashiell Hammett's first novel, Red Harvest, appeared in 1929 after serialization in Black Mask. Its narrator is the unnamed Continental Op, a detective who arrives in Personville, a western mining town known as Poisonville. An inquiry there draws him into a system in which criminal interests and po...
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Hard-boiled landmark, hugely influential, admired for style, corruption portrait, and ruthless momentum.
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The Dain Curse is a 1929 novel by Dashiell Hammett featuring the unnamed Continental Op, an investigator employed by a private detective agency. Beginning with a diamond theft, the inquiry expands into murders, religious manipulation, drug use, and claims that the Dain family is afflicted by a hered...
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Important Hammett novel with sharp prose but tangled structure; respected below Red Harvest and Maltese Falcon.
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