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I only read Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon in this collection, and thought they were mediocre stories written in clumsy prose at best.

Red Harvest was too melodramatic for my taste with too many murders, its narrative momentum relying solely on the plot that g...more...]]> 29997 1883011671 9781883011673 359 52 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168050297m/29997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29997.Dashiell_Hammett_Complete_Novels_Red_Harvest_The_Dain_Curse_The_Maltese_Falcon_The_Glass_Key_The_Thin_Man 3 0 false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Sep 04 08:42:43 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 04:42:34 -0700 2009 Red Harvest. Ostensibly a detective story featuring the nameless Continental Op, it dissects the inherent nature of greed and the myth of “Pi...more...]]> 29997 1883011671 9781883011673 359 52 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168050297m/29997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29997.Dashiell_Hammett_Complete_Novels_Red_Harvest_The_Dain_Curse_The_Maltese_Falcon_The_Glass_Key_The_Thin_Man 4 0 false Tue May 29 00:00:00 -0700 1990 Fri May 29 12:35:33 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 12:40:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 29997 1883011671 9781883011673 359 52 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168050297m/29997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29997.Dashiell_Hammett_Complete_Novels_Red_Harvest_The_Dain_Curse_The_Maltese_Falcon_The_Glass_Key_The_Thin_Man 5 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 20 20:21:11 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 20:27:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 29997 1883011671 9781883011673 359 52 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168050297m/29997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29997.Dashiell_Hammett_Complete_Novels_Red_Harvest_The_Dain_Curse_The_Maltese_Falcon_The_Glass_Key_The_Thin_Man 3 0 false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 17:00:26 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 03:59:35 -0700 2009
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett was the first novel featuring The Continental Op, a detective working for a concern not unlike Hammett's own former employer, the Pinke...more...]]> 29997 1883011671 9781883011673 359 52 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168050297m/29997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29997.Dashiell_Hammett_Complete_Novels_Red_Harvest_The_Dain_Curse_The_Maltese_Falcon_The_Glass_Key_The_Thin_Man 4 3 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 12 09:07:03 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 09:20:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 29997 1883011671 9781883011673 359 52 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168050297m/29997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29997.Dashiell_Hammett_Complete_Novels_Red_Harvest_The_Dain_Curse_The_Maltese_Falcon_The_Glass_Key_The_Thin_Man 5 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 08:09:10 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 13:49:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 29997 1883011671 9781883011673 359 52 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168050297m/29997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29997.Dashiell_Hammett_Complete_Novels_Red_Harvest_The_Dain_Curse_The_Maltese_Falcon_The_Glass_Key_The_Thin_Man 5 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 19:28:51 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 20:46:54 -0700 2007
1. Red Harvest: the first Continental Op novel and a great one at that; the plot twist of the Op having to clear his own ...more...]]> 29997 1883011671 9781883011673 359 52 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168050297m/29997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29997.Dashiell_Hammett_Complete_Novels_Red_Harvest_The_Dain_Curse_The_Maltese_Falcon_The_Glass_Key_The_Thin_Man 3 0 false Fri Feb 27 14:26:31 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 14:33:29 -0800 2009
Anyway, Steve Seinberg turned me on to Hammett and it was breath of fresh air. I though David Gemmell was brief in his prose but Hammett ha...more...]]> 29997 1883011671 9781883011673 359 52 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168050297m/29997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29997.Dashiell_Hammett_Complete_Novels_Red_Harvest_The_Dain_Curse_The_Maltese_Falcon_The_Glass_Key_The_Thin_Man 3 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 27 06:47:16 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 18:48:48 -0700 2007 Raymond Chandler as my "homework". "You think you can set up half your novel as a murder mystery and you haven't ready any Hammett? What about Chandler? What is wrong with you!?"
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