Dashiell Hammett: The Big Knockover
The Big Knockover
Buch
- Selected Stories and Short Novels
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 07/1989
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780679722595
- Artikelnummer: 12139108
- Umfang: 482 Seiten
- Gewicht: 533 g
- Maße: 203 x 132 mm
- Stärke: 26 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 17.7.1989
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid.Biografie
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland and worked in a number of menial jobs until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career.
Dashiell Hammett
The Big Knockover
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