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Chargement... The Dain Curse / The Thin Man / The Glass Key / Red Harvest / The Maltese Falconpar Dashiell Hammett
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. "It was a diamond all right, shining in the grass half a dozen feet from the blue brick walk. It was small, not more than a carat of a carat in weight, and unmounted. I put it in my pocket and began searching the lawn as closely as I could without going at it on all fours. I had covered a couple of square yards of sod when the Leggetts' front door opened. A woman came out on the broad stone top step and looked down at me with good humored curiosity. " Red Harvest: I enjoyed Red Harvest very much. It was a real throwback story and had all the Detective Noir elements: a hero detective who didn't mind bending the rules to get things done but whose heart is in the right place; gangsters who stopped at nothing to get what they wanted; a woman who may or may not have interested him personally; a Mr. Big money-man; bent coppers; guns; knives; shady streets; etc... While the beginning of the story was relatively low in its humour it did warm up in this regard with fun and sarcasm making more appearances as time went on. I was warned that the title was a reference to the body count in this story. I can vouch for the validity of that, but unlike some more recent books, and like many films of today, there is no gore. Someone gets shot and they are down. No gruesome descriptions of injuries. I prefer it this way. Gruesome descriptions of injuries or graphic movie scenes showing how clever the special effects people can be, are like broken pencils: pointless. Has this book encouraged me to read more Dashiell Hammett stories? Yes! Would I recommend this book? Yes! Who would I consider recommending this book to? Anyone who likes murder mysteries. This was a quick and easy read. I liked it ok, but can’t say that it turned me into a mystery fan. I found it difficult to keep track of all the details; and I kept having to turn back a page to make sure I understood who was talking to whom. Some of the details in the story were interesting. I would guess the lifestyle of the rich and famous (up all night, ordering every meal out, drinking all day and night, paying the doorman to walk the dog), and the lifestyles of the “low lifes” in the story (drinking cheap alcohol, drugs, “cheap” women throwing frying pans at cheating boyfriends) was probably pretty titillating when Hammett wrote the story. It was hard for me to read the women in this story; even Nora, the “smart” one, is a self-effacing, stand-behind-her-man help-mate who can’t manage the money her father left her or compete on par with her accomplished sleuth husband. . . . Ugh. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel." "The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume, have become part of modern American culture, creating archetypal characters and establishing the ground rules for a whole tradition of hardboiled writing." "Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929), a raucous and nightmarish evocation of political corruption and gang warfare in a western mining town, epitomizes the violence and momentum of Hammett's Black Mask stories about the anonymous detective the Continental Op. The Op returns, in The Dain Curse (1929), to preside over a more ornately melodramatic tale involving jewel theft, drugs, and a mysterious religious cult. With The Maltese Falcon (1930), and its protagonist Sam Spade, Hammett achieved his most enduring popular success. A tightly constructed quest story with an unforgettable cast of eccentric adventures, it is at the same time shot through with a sense of disillusionment and the arbitrariness of personal destiny." "The Glass Key (1931), an exploration of city politics at their most scurrilous, traces intricate patterns of loyalty and betrayal in scenes charged with drama." "His last novel, The Thin Man (1934), is a ruefully comic tale that pays homage to the traditional mystery form. It is best remembered for its protagonists Nick and Nora Charles, the sophisticated inebriates who would enjoy a long afterlife in the movies."--Jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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