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When his partner is killed while on a case, Sam Spade is plunged into the hunt for a priceless, gem-encrusted statuette known as the Maltese Falcon, a legendary artifact coveted by a cast of deceitful characters, including the enigmatic Brigid O'Shaug
'An acknowledged literary landmark' [Robert Graves] from 'The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction' [New York Times] The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a
The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining mystery novel, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a
'When I opened my eyes and sat up in bed Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom doorway.' Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wol
The character Sam Spade is now the subject of a brand new TV series, MONSIEUR SPADE, starring Clive Owen. One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century. 'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Ha
Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . ' Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy 'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ri
'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Co
Leggett-familien i San Francisco har fået stjålet deres diamanter familiejuvelerne, og detektiven bliver tilkaldt for at opklare dette tyveri. En formodet forbandelse, der hviler over Dain-familien, og som angiveligt har resulteret i pludselige og voldso
Julia Wolf, som er sekretær for den berømte opfinder Clyde Wynant, bliver fundet myrdet i sin lejlighed i New York. Sagen kommer i offentlighedens søgelys, da det viser sig, at Wynant er forsvundet, og at Julia har været elskerinde til en gangster. Den fo
Da en hårdtkæmpende detektiv ankommer til Personville og finder ud af, at hans klient er blevet myrdet, finder han det nødvendigt at undersøge lokale bandeaktiviteter. Det bliver farligt. Meget farligt. Dashiell Hammett er kendt for sine utrolige detektiv
Sam Spade, privatdetektiv i San Francisco, er ikke umiddelbart tiltalende. Overhovedet ikke. At han er på lovens side, er noget af et tilfælde. Han er hensynsløs, effektiv og kynisk, men også i besiddelse af en melankolsk æresfølelse, der gør hans liv lan
San Francisco, 1928. Private detective Sam Spade takes on what seems like a routine case: a beautiful woman seeks protection for her sister from a dangerous man. But when his partner is murdered and the woman vanishes, Spade finds himself trapped in a web
In Dashiell Hammett's famous crime novel, we meet one of the detective-story master's most enchanting creations, Nick and Nora Charles, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedl
As an operative for Pinkertons Detective Agency Dashiell Hammett knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. These three celebrated novels are therefore the products of a hard real life, not