The greatest crime novel of the 20th century launches Orion's Crime Masterworks series

A collection of twenty short stories with an introduction by Colin Dexter. This book a title story in which a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unravelling the dark mystery at its heart. It shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils.

'An acknowledged literary landmark' Robert Graves

Includes four linked stories - The House in Turk Street , The Girl with the Silver Eyes , The Big Knockover and 6,000 Blood Money - featuring the Continental Op, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective.

A title that was originally published in 1932.

Dashiell Hammett, the creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of the 20th century's influential authors. This compendium contains 21 Hammett stories, which represent a variety of styles from the famous mysterysmith: his first detective fiction, adventure yarns, a sensitive autobiographical piece, and more.

Three celebrated novels, 'The Maltese Falcon', 'The Thin Man' and 'Red Harvest'.

This collection brings together the very best of Dashiell Hammett's early stories featuring the Continental Op, the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.

One of the greatest crime novels and noir films of the 20th century

Four classic Dashiell Hammett crime novels in one volume

'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' Boston Globe

1921-1960. A literary event, the first ever selection from the letters of Dashiell Hammett, the genius of American crime fiction.

Though he is celebrated for his fiction, Dashiell Hammett was also an investigative journalist. This work collects his nonfiction. It includes the pieces that ran in Hammett's syndicated newspaper column 'The Crime Wave', along with essays on writing well, politics, good and bad mysteries, and the World War II Battle of the Aleutians.