The Thin Man
de Dashiell Hammett
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Vintage paperback - complete with worn edges, creased spine tanned pages, all 189 of them- just acceptable - Dashiell Hammett the Thin Man penguin Penguin Books Limited first published 1932 published Penguin Books 1935 reprinted 1952, 1961 1974 twice, 1977, 1979 and 1980, 1982, 1985 this Edition set printed bound Great Britain by Cox & Wyman limited, reading set in monotype Baskerville- cover design by Robert Hollingsworth, illustration by Paul Higgins--Retirement suited Nick just fine. He had a pretty wife named Nora, a Schnauzer named Austra, a taste for good scotch. Just took a little persuasion. Like 4.32 bullets, a blonde, the newspapers, the cops, and adjunct up hoodlum in his bedroom Nick Charles, former Trans American detective agency Ace, was back in business. -Fair to acceptable - The Thin Man -Author Dashiell Hammett Publisher 1985 penguin UK-- A Current ISBN 0307767507, 9780307767509- 189 pages- Subjects Fiction / Classics / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled in- ...LAX Vespasee pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't -E..LAX Vespa shipped -United States Post to fulfill your order, Los Angeles I carefully pack your book.Gift just let me know-Thin Man 4087 AD yellow str- SB PB ZULU
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Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the final Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or “operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him a classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett himself.
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- Librería
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 4087
- Título
- The Thin Man
- Autor
- Dashiell Hammett
- Ilustrador
- Robert Hollingsworth, illustration by Paul Higgins
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- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - -Fair to acceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Paperback
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1985
- Editorial
- Penguin UK
- Lugar de publicación
- United Kingdom
- Fecha de publicación
- 1985
- Tamaño
- about 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.8
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