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Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929) epitomizes the violence and momentum of his Black Mask stories about the anonymous detective the Continental Op, in a raucous and nightmarish evocation of political corruption and gang warfare in a western mining town. In The Dain Curse (1929) the Op returns in a more melodramatic tale involving jewel theft, drugs, and a religious cult. With The Maltese Falcon (1930) and its protagonist Sam Spade, Hammett achieved his most enduring popular success, a tightly constructed quest story shot through with a sense of disillusionment and the arbitrariness of personal destiny. The Glass Key (1931) is a further exploration of city politics at their most scurrilous. His last novel was The Thin Man (1934), a ruefully comic tale paying homage to the traditional mystery form and featuring Nick and Nora Charles, the sophisticated inebriates who would enjoy a long afterlife in the movies.
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Private investigators, Translations into Russian, Detective and mystery stories, American, Open Library Staff Picks, Conto, Literatura norte-americana, United States, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Hammett, dashiell, 1894-1961, Nora Charles (Fictitious character), Nick Charles (Fictitious character), Sam Spade (Fictitious character), Continental Op (Fictitious character)Places
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Dashiell Hammett: A Retrospective Anthology
February 2004, Oxford University Press
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Complete novels
1999, Literary Classics of the United States Inc.
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Dashiell Hammett: Five Complete Novels Red Harvest, Dain Curse, Maltese Falcon. Glass Key and Thin Man
July 30, 1991, Random House/Knopf
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Dashiell Hammett: 5 Complete Novels
August 5, 1987, Random House Value Publishing
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Dashiell Hammett: five complete novels.
1986, Chatham River Press, Distributed by Crown Publishers
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Dashiell Hammett: five complete novels.
1980, Avenel Books, distributed by Crown Publishers
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