Crime Stories and Other Writings by Steven Marcus, Dashiell Hammett

Crime Stories and Other Writings

The Continental Op #2.5

Steven Marcus, Dashiell Hammett

934 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

fiction crime mystery short stories mysterious fast-paced
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In scores of stories written for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to register the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern America. His stories opened up crime...

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