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This volume brings together Hammett’s first five novels—Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man—published between 1929 and 1934. Hammett’s work became foundational to modern American crime fiction, establishing archetypal detective characters and the conventions of the hardboiled style. Each title offers a distinct narrative tone: a violent western in Red Harvest; a melodramatic jewel‑theft tale in The Dain Curse; a quest‑driven mystery with Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon; a political intrigue in The Glass Key; and a comic homage to the mystery form in The Thin Man.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Dashiell Hammett
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