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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 Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best examples of Hammett's early writing, in which his formidable literary and moral imagination is already operating at full strength. The Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency, modelled on the Pinkerton Agency, whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion,…

Богатая китайская эмигрантка, владеющая красивым домом на берегу океана, обращается в агентство с просьбой расследовать убийство двух ее служанок.

Какой-то информатор сообщил герою-оперативнику, что разыскиваемый им преступник «нарисовался» в одном из домов на тихой Турецкой улице, но номер строения неизвестен. Потому сыщику приходится обходить каждый с незатейливой «легендой» о поиске очевидца падения престарелой дамы с задней площадки трамвая. И вот он набредает на пожилую семейную чету, которая всяческой болтовнёй надолго задерживает героя в своём доме. А затем какой-то незаметно подкравшийся сзади субъект с бандитскими повадками приставляет к голове ищейки крупнокалиберный пистолет...

Выполняя поручение руководителя агенства, частный сыщик встречается с молодым поэтом, утверждающим, что его невесту, вероятно, похитили. Девица неожиданно 3 недели назад уехала на восточное побережье, поначалу ежедневно писала жениху, но вот уже дней 10 от неё нет ни слуху, ни духу. Как впоследствии выясняется, «сладкая парочка» некоторое время назад получила крупную сумму по поддельному банковскому чеку со счёта богатого родственника поэта. Теперь уже куда-то запропал и сам молодой жених...

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 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…

Everybody, it seems, is looking for the stutue of a bird, and some of them are dying. Who has the bird? Who knows where it is? Who is telling the truth? Who knows what the truth is? Sam Spade - one of the great private detectives of American fiction - has a new client, and it is his job to find out.

Literary Thoughts edition presents The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories by Dashiell Hammett – "The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" is a collection of seven short stories (three of them with Detective Sam Spade), written by American author of detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961): * Too Many Have Lived * They Can Only Hang You Once * A Man Called Spade * The Assistant Murderer * Night Shade * The Judge Laughed Last * His Brother's Keeper. All books of the Literary Thoughts edition have been transscribed…

"The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" is a collection of seven short stories, written and published in 1924 by American author of detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961): * Too Many Have Lived * They Can Only Hang You Once * A Man Called Spade * The Assistant Murderer * Night Shade * The Judge Laughed Last * His Brother's Keeper

Todos los cuentos re?ne los m?s de 80 relatos cortos del padre de la novela negra estadounidense, Dashiell Hammett. Este tesoro literario cuenta con los ya cl?sicos personajes, Sam Spade y el Agente de la Continental , como protagonistas de la mayor?a de los relatos.

Cinco novelas. Dashiell Hammett escribi? solo cinco novelas, pero con ellas marc? el rumbo que deb?a seguir todo el g?nero negro a partir deentonces. Supo crear personajes carism?ticos y memorables; imagin? historias oscuras dominadas por la falsedad, la corrupci?n y el vicio; y recre? atm?sferas violentas y recargadas que a?n hoy resultan impactantes.Desde la legendaria El halc?n malt?s, protagonizada por Sam Spade, hasta la sofisticada El hombre delgado, pasando por las imprescindibles obras narradas por el impenetrable agente de la Continental (Cosecha roja, La maldici?n de los Dain) y La llave de cristal, todas las novelas de Dashiell…

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Sam Spade und sein Partner Miles Archer betreiben in San Francisco eine Privatdetektei. Alles beginnt mit einem scheinbar harmlosen Auftrag: Die umwerfende «Miss Wonderly» bittet die beiden Detektive darum, ihre kleine Schwester aufzutreiben, die durchgebrannt ist mit einem Mann. Doch schon in der n?chsten Nacht gibt es zwei Tote. Und einer davon ist Archer, mit dessen Frau Spade eine Aff?re hat. Dann erscheint ein schm?chtiger Typ bei Spade und bietet ihm 5000 Dollar f?r die Wiederbeschaffung einer kostbaren Vogelskulptur – nur um ihn gleich darauf mit einer Pistole zu bedrohen und sein B?ro nach dem «Malteser Falken» zu durchsuchen.…

A Tale of the Continental Op The man who had disturbed my Sunday morning sleep—I found when I reached the Glenton—was a slim, white-faced person of about twenty-five, with big brown eyes that were red-rimmed just now from either sleeplessness or crying, or both. His long brown hair was rumpled when he opened the door to admit me; and he wore a mauve dressing-robe spotted with big jade parrots over wine-colored silk pajamas. The room into which he led me resembled an auctioneer’s establishment just before the sale—or maybe one of these alley tea-rooms. Fat blue vases, crooked red vases, lanky yellow vases, vases of various shapes and…

"The House in Turk Street" is an early short story by Dashiell Hammett, featuring the Continental Op. It was first published in Black Mask in April 1924. This story indicates Hammett was turning towards themes of increasing violence in his stories, and its savagery has been commented upon by critic Robert Sampson, particularly the ending. The story was loosely adapted into the film No Good Deed (2002), directed by Bob Rafelson.

"The Thin Man" is set in New York City in December 1932, in the last days of Prohibition. The main characters are a former private detective, Nick Charles and Nora, his clever young wife. Nick, son of a Greek immigrant, has given up his career since marrying Nora, a wealthy socialite and he spends most of his time cheerfully getting drunk in hotel rooms and speakeasies. Nick and Nora have no children but they own a female Schnauzer named Asta. (In the film adaptation, Asta is a male wire-haired fox terrier.) Charles is drawn, mostly against his will, into investigating a murder. The case brings them in contact with the Wynants, a rather…