Jul 17, 1989 | ISBN 9780679722618
"An acknowledged literary landmark." –NY Times Book Review.
"Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer." — Boston Globe
"Hammett’s prose [is] clean and entirely unique. His characters [are] as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction."
—The New York Times
