Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest Hammett DashiellPevná vazba
Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest Hammett DashiellPevná vazba As an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency Dashiell Hammett knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut…
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Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest Hammett DashiellPevná vazba
As an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency Dashiell Hammett knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. Despite - or because of - that, Hammett had an enormous effect on mainstream writers between the wars. These three celebrated novels are therefore the products of a hard real life, not a literary education.
Taking detective fiction out of the drawing-room, Hammett 'gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it', as Raymond Chandler said. Like his readers, they were attracted by the combination of laconic style, sharp convincing dialogue, vivid settings and, above all, the low-life, hard-boiled characters who populate the streets of his stories. In so doing, he left his mark on modern fiction.