The glass key
Language: English
American Crime & Thriller Crime & mystery Detective Detective and Mystery Stories Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Hard-Boiled Literary Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled Police Procedural Political Suspense Thrillers Women Sleuths
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: Dec 14, 1989
Description:
SUMMARY: 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? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. This classic Hammet work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.