The Glass Key
Author(s): Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett's strangest and most personal work - 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy
Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city.
Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic, moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoroughbred senator's daughter; but does he want it badly enough to commit murder? If he's innocent, who wants him in the frame? Beaumont must find out.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Vintage
- : 0.204117
- : 17 July 1989
- : .55 Inches X 5.14 Inches X 7.97 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : 224
- : Paperback
- : Dashiell Hammett