Three Dashiell Hammett paperbacks

Description: Three Dashiell Hammett paperbacks – plus a free bonus Get set for taut mystery and violent action in these paperbacks. A former Pinkerton agent, Dashiell Hammett, 1894 to 1961, was one of the founders of the hardboiled school of detective fiction. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. The Maltese Falcon – Dell paperback first printing 1966. Condition good, creases on upper and lower right cover, price sticker on cover, crease on upper left corner of back.Brigid O'Shaughnessy hires Sam Spade to find a statuette of a black falcon, which is also being sought by Joel Cairo, a crook, and the rich and sophisticated fat man Caspar Gutman, who is accompanied by Wilmer Cook, a vicious young gunman. The story was made into a motion picture three times and selected by the Mystery Writers of America in 1995 as the third best crime novel of all time. The Dain Curse – Dell paperback first printing 1968. Condition good, crease on lower right corner of cover, tiny piece missing from upper left corner of back, price sticker on cover.The Continental Op investigates a theft of diamonds from the Leggett family of San Francisco. The plot involves a supposed curse on the Dain family, said to inflict sudden and violent deaths upon those in their vicinity. Red Harvest – Dell paperback first printing 1968. Condition very good.From the moment the Continental Op arrives from San Francisco, he knows there will be trouble. It starts simply enough – just one bloody corpse. But that's before he meets a girl named Dinah Brand and the corpses start piling up like firewood to fuel an inferno of blackmail, frame up, double cross, and murder. As it says on the cover: "Dashiell Hammett's Violent Masterpiece." FREE BONUS: Fright – 1950 – Paperback version published 2007 by Dorchester Publishing Co. Inc. under the Hard Case Crime label. Very good condition except for library stickers on back cover. Lost for more than half a century and never before published under Cornell Woolrich's real name. A man. A woman. A kiss in the dark. That's how it begins. But before his nightmare ends, Prescott Marshall will learn that kisses and darkness can both hide evil intent – and that the worst darkness of all may be lurking inside him. Woolrich also wrote "Rear Window," which was turned into an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. "The supreme master of suspense." The New York Times"You can palpably feel the agony in Woolrich and his work." James Elroy"One of the great masters." Ellery Queen"It is high time Woolrich was rediscovered." Los Angeles Times You could buy this separately online for $15 to $30 – but it's yours free with this set. If you'd like to see more collections like this one, visit my eBay site at https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?item=186489588749&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m145687.l2562&_ssn=biwood35New collections are being added weekly.

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