The Glass Key

The Glass Key

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Crime, Thrillers & True Crime, Crime & Thrillers
Paperback Published on: 02/02/2012
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Synopsis

Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy

'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES

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.

  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • ISBN: 9781409138044
  • Number of pages: 224
  • Weight: 202g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 20 mm

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My father was a big fan of hammett and American hard boiled detective fiction. I prefer English crime really but as I'm a big fan of the thin man movies I ... READ MORE
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