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Red Harvest is Dashiell Hammett's first novel, published in 1929 after appearing serially in Black Mask. Its unnamed Continental Op narrator travels to Personville, a corrupt western mining town nicknamed Poisonville, and manipulates rival criminal and political factions into destroying one another....
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Hard-boiled landmark, hugely influential, admired for style, corruption portrait, and ruthless momentum.
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The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, developed from a story first serialized in Black Mask magazine. Private investigator Sam Spade becomes entangled with criminals seeking a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette whose history and value are obscured by decepti...
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Hard-boiled detective landmark with major literary reputation; more noir investigation than classical whodunit.
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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...
Why this score
Important Hammett novel with sharp prose but tangled structure; respected below Red Harvest and Maltese Falcon.
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