Title The Dain curse, the glass key, and selected stories / Dashiell Hammett ; with an introduction by James Ellroy.

Imprint

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction	F HAMMETT	Check Shelf
Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction	MYS HAMMETT	In Processing

Description	xxvii, 633 pages ; 22 cm.
Series	Everyman's library ; 307
Note	"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Contents	Introduction -- Selected bibliography -- Chronology -- The House in Turk Street -- The Girl with the silver eyes -- The Big knockover -- $106,000 blood money -- The Dain curse -- The Glass key.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page xv).
Summary	A compilation of works by one of the most popular writers of American, hard-boiled crime fiction features the tough, antihero detective, the Continental Op, who narrates four linked stories and the novel, "The Dain Curse."
Form	Also issued online.
Subject	Detective and mystery stories, American.
	Continental Op (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
	Private investigators in literature.
	Continental Op (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00876669
	Detective and mystery stories, American. (OCoLC)fst00891483
	Private investigators in literature. (OCoLC)fst01077512
	Mystery fiction.
	Short stories.
Genre/Form	Detective and mystery stories.
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Mystery fiction.
	Short stories.
	Detective and mystery stories.
Added Author	Ellroy, James, 1948-
Added Title	Glass key and selected stories
Other Form:	Online version: Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961. Dain curse, the glass key, and selected stories. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 (OCoLC)607724231
	Online version: Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961. Dain curse, the glass key, and selected stories. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 (OCoLC)607774624
ISBN	9780307266699
	0307266699

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