A new collection of crime
stories from the legendary hard-boiled crime writer Dashiell Hammett. The
author of classic novels The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon,
Hammett has been called 'a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one
hell of a writer' (The Boston Globe), while Raymond Chandler raved that
Hammett 'wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.'
