A treasure worth killing for. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Isbn13: 9780679722649. Tracking provided on most orders. Condition: New. Sam spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.
A perfumed grafter named joel cairo, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a fat man name Gutman, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee.
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The Big Sleep A Philip Marlowe Novel
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, seduction, pornography, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in. Vintage Books USA. The iconic first novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" Los Angeles Times.
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The Thin Man
Vintage Books. Vintage Books USA. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a classic murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners. In dashiell hammett's famous crime novel, a rich, we meet one of the detective-story master's most enchanting creations, Nick and Nora Charles, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis.
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Devil in a Blue Dress Easy Rawlins Mystery
Washington Square Press. Vintage Books. Vintage Books USA. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Monet, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Devil in a blue dress, a defining novel in walter mosley’s bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series, was adapted into a TriStar Pictures film starring Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins and Don Cheadle as Mouse.
Set in the late 1940s, in the african-american community of Watts, Devil in a Blue Dress follows Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles, a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant.
Farewell, My Lovely
Vintage. Crime fiction master raymond Chandler's second novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" Los Angeles Times. Philip marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
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Double Indemnity
Washington Square Press. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. Vintage. Vintage. Vintage Books. Cain, of duplicity, virtuoso of the roman noir, an X-ray view of guilt, and of the kind of obsessive, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, loveless love that devastates everything it touches.
Walter huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. James M. Vintage Books USA. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Washington Square Press. Vintage. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger. Vintage. Vintage Books. Vintage Books USA. Vintage. It established James M. An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband.
A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir.
Red Harvest
Detective-story master dashiell hammett gives us yet another unforgettable read in Red Harvest: When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery Hercule Poirot Mysteries
He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Washington Square Press. Vintage. But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Vintage Books. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. Harper Paperbacks. Vintage. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband.
Vintage. Vintage. Unfortunately, before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. Vintage Books USA.
In a Lonely Place New York Review Books
Vintage Books USA. Harper Paperbacks. Vintage Books. Vintage. A classic of golden age noir, in a lonely Place also inspired Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart. Hughes’s tense novel is at once an early indictment of a truly toxic masculinity and a twisty page-turner with a surprisingly feminist resolution.
Washington Square Press. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing. Vintage. Vintage. Vintage. Where is the good life he was promised? why does he always get a raw deal? Then he hooks up with his old Air Corps buddy Brub, now working for the LAPD, who just happens to be on the trail of the strangler who’s been terrorizing the women of the city for months.
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To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky. He prowls the foggy city night—bus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out—seeking solitary young women.
The Long Goodbye
This is a perma-bound edition, hardcovers for the price of a paperback book! Vintage. Vintage Books. Harper Paperbacks. Washington Square Press. Then he finds out that terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. Vintage. Crime fiction master raymond Chandler's sixth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" Los Angeles Times.
In noir master raymond chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. And now lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. Vintage. Vintage Books USA. Vintage.
