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Author:
Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961.
Title:
The Dain curse, the glass key, and selected stories / Dashiell Hammett ; with an introduction by James Ellroy.
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
xxvii, 633 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Continental Op (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Private investigators in literature.
Mystery fiction
Short stories
Other Authors:
Ellroy, James, 1948-
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. xv).
Contents:
Introduction -- Selected bibliography -- Chronology -- The House in Turk Street -- The Girl with the silver eyes -- The Big knockover -- $106,000 blood money -- The Dain curse -- The Glass key.
Summary:
A compilation of works by one of the most popular writers of American, hard-boiled crime fiction features the tough, antihero detective, the Continental Op, who narrates four linked stories and the novel, "The Dain Curse."
Series:
Everyman's library ; 307
ISBN:
0307266699
9780307266699
LCCN:
2007280353
Locations:
SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)
AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

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