{"product_id":"9780375411250","title":"The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest","description":"By: Dashiell Hammett   | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three classic novels published here in one volume  are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell  Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA one-time detective  and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime  novel. In \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/i\u003e, Sam Spade, a private eye with his own solitary code  of ethics, tangles with a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at  the drop of a dime. \u003ci\u003eThe Thin Man\u003c\/i\u003e introduces Hammett's wittiest creations, Nick and  Nora Charles, who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. And in \u003ci\u003eRed  Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective, the Continental Op, takes on the  entire town of Poisonville in a deadly war against corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dashiell Hammett  is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer.\"—\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Hammett was spare, hard-boiled, but he did over and over what only the best writers  can ever do. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.”—Raymond  Chandler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Hammett’s prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as  sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”As a novelist of realistic intrigue, Hammett was unsurpassed in his own or any  time.”—Ross Macdonald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Dashiell Hammett’s dialogues can be compared only with the  best in Hemingway.”—André Gide\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e”Hammett is one of the best contemporary American  writers.”—Gertrude Stein\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"US - Hardback","offer_id":46409590112483,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780375411250","price":224.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780375411250.jpg?v=1749302665","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9780375411250","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}