Dashiell Hammett - collected novels

Red Harvest - www.megaupload.com/?d=8H43K144 (rtf,txt):
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that meant taking on the entire town...

The Dain Curse - www.megaupload.com/?d=V9H00L6A (rtf,txt):
In The Dain Curse, a madman's quest for revenge on a woman who has scorned him leads directly or indirectly to the deaths or maimings of more than a dozen people. Another character in The Dain Curse, a cult leader, has convinced himself that he is the Lord Jehovah incarnate, and when the Op barely manages to kill him after shooting him seven times and stabbing him in the throat, he thinks to himself "Thank God he wasn't really God".

The Maltese Falcon - www.megaupload.com/?d=GAMOY1RG (rtf,txt):
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?

The Glass Key - www.megaupload.com/?d=PZPR0VG0 (rtf,txt):
In "The Glass Key," his penultimate novel, Hammett melded the world of the "hard-boiled detective"--shady underground figures, powerful men and, of course, a beautiful woman--with a theme that recurs throughout his ouvre--of basic trust between kindred souls. Often over-shadowed in the eyes of readers by the novels that preceeded and followed, "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man," "The Glass Key" is Hammett at the very top of his form. Writing as no one had before, or has since.

Woman in the Dark - www.megaupload.com/?d=VJ9UMBBF (rtf,txt):
A hurt and frightened woman, pursued by mysterious, menacing strangers, is taken in by a couple in an isolated house.

The Thin Man - www.megaupload.com/?d=S2XAWF9Q (rtf,txt):
Dashiell Hammett is the novelist who wrote about the original private eye, Sam Spade. This book contains his characteristic clean prose and his ear for character voice. It's full of double crossing, bluffing and mystery. The twist is that the detective in this story is both retired and married to a very classy dame named Nora. Of course, this doesn't stop him becoming embroiled in a case which contains a former client, an old flame and a bewildering number of red herrings.


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