{"title":"Dashiell Hammett PDF E-Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-thin-man","title":"The Thin Man","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Thin Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a genre-defining mystery novel, published in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEx-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in a hotel suite with his glamorous wife Nora, their pet Schnauzer and a case of good Scotch. But then a bullet-riddled corpse and a missing inventor (not to mention the attentions of a beautiful young woman) force him out of retirement and back into business. Trying to make sense of false leads, suspicious alibis and mistaken identities, Nick and Nora are thrown into a world of gangsters, hoodlums and speakeasies, where no-one can be trusted. Dashiell Hammett was credited with inventing the hardboiled crime novel, and this story of murder and mayhem in Manhattan, with its breakneck plot, snappy dialogue - and the hard-drinking, wisecracking couple Nick and Nora - is one of his most thrillingly enjoyable mysteries.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDashiel Samuel Hammett (1894-1961) was born on a farm in southern Maryland, and grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He left school at the age of fourteen, and after various jobs became an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency. The First World War intervened, and Hammett soon turned to writing, becoming, during the 1920s, the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1930), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Thin Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1932) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Glass Key\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (1931) are among his most famous novels.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Thin Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, you might like Raymond Chandler's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Big Sleep and Other Novels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'The ace performer'\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRaymond Chandler, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Big Sleep\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'The exuberance of language, the relish with which seediness is described ... it's a pleasure to imagine Hammett cutting loose with whatever rascally high jinks he could cook up'\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMargaret Atwood, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Blind Assassin\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46598829244690,"sku":"","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/TheThinMan.jpg?v=1693199199"},{"product_id":"the-maltese-falcon","title":"The Maltese Falcon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFrom \"a master of the detective novel [and] one hell of a writer\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe) \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Falcon.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good E-Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51655704051986,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/1009\/1026\/files\/TheMalteseFalcon.jpg?v=1760081064"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.goode-books.com\/collections\/dashiell-hammett-pdf-e-books.oembed","provider":"Good E-Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}