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Title
The glass key

Author
Dashiell Hammett

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Language
English

UK Publication Date
19890717

Description

Ned Beaumont isagambler and a professional troubleshooter forhis friendPaul Madvig, a cheerfully corrupt political power broker who aspires to greater things. Madvig has his eyes set on none other than the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds.Whenthe senator's son turns up dead, Madvigbecomes the prime suspect. But if he is innocent, then which of his dozens of enemies is doing an awfully good job of framing him?

Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of crime fiction combines a bulletproof plot, authentically corrupt characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.

Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland. 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.

Type
BOOK

Country of Publication
New York (State)

Number of Pages
214

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