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The Big Knockover
Dashiell Hammett
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Description for The Big Knockover
Paperback. 'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' BOSTON GLOBE Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 302.
'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' BOSTON GLOBE
Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. Short, squat and as stubborn as a mule, the Op's only enthusiasm was doing his job. In the stories in THE BIG KNOCKOVER, the job means solving the bank heist to end all bank heists, taking on a gang of freebooters, cleaning up a vice-ridden hell in the desert and dealing with assorted colourful grifters like the Dis-and-Dat Kid, Alphabet Shorty McCoy and Bluepoint Vance.
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
312g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409138068
SKU
V9781409138068
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Ref
99-50
About Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs - messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore - until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.
Reviews for The Big Knockover
His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow
INDEPENDENT
He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer
BOSTON GLOBE
The first fully "hard-boiled" hero in American letters
NEW YORKER
Hammett's prose is clean and entirely unique. His characters are as sharp and economically defined as any in American literature
NEW YORK TIMES
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used
Raymond Chandler Dashiell Hammett's crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré
GUARDIAN
INDEPENDENT
He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer
BOSTON GLOBE
The first fully "hard-boiled" hero in American letters
NEW YORKER
Hammett's prose is clean and entirely unique. His characters are as sharp and economically defined as any in American literature
NEW YORK TIMES
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used
Raymond Chandler Dashiell Hammett's crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré
GUARDIAN