Dashiell Hammett
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 307
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
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."
Author
Publisher
Grove/Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After the Thin Man -- Nick and Nora investigate a love triangle gone wrong after a dead man is discovered at their door. Another Thin Man-- After a wealthy business partner of Nora's father's is murdered, Nick and Nora's investigation brings them into the killer's crosshairs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
"Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him?"--Publisher's description.
6) Red harvest
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
When a hard-fighting detective arrives in Personville and finds that his client has been murdered, he decides to investigate local gangland activities.
11) The glass key
Series
Publisher
Turner Classic Movies
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
During a campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associates with the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph's son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul's sister Opal, is murdered, Paul's right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial situation of The Observer to force the publisher Clyde Matthews...
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington D.C. after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends at the German Embassy that Kurt is working with an anti-Nazi underground group in Germany. He tries to blackmail Kurt. Kurt shoots him and must flee. When Sara hears no more of Kurt, she knows that her oldest son Joshua...
13) The thin man
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Nick and Nora Charles, a charming, sophisticated married couple, go to New York to enjoy the Christmas holidays. Instead, he being a "retired" detective, and she, an enthusiastic amateur sleuth, find themselves investigating a murder.
14) Collectibles
Publisher
Lawrence Block Production
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What leads one person to collect stamps and another coins, one fine art and another butterflies? Who can say? But one thing is certain: no one covets like a collector; and a truly dedicted collector will ignore the other nine commandments, too, in his quest for his personal Holy Grail. From Joyce Carol Oates' tale of the ultimate Marilyn Monroe collectible to Dennis Lehand's bookseller with a penchant for other people's tragic correspondence, from...
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