The Asphalt Jungle
W R Burnett
A jewel heist planned down to the minute comes apart because the men pulling it off want different things. Burnett follows the crew and the police with equal attention, and treats the corrupt city itself as the force that beats them.
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Red HarvestHammett's first novel sends the nameless Continental Op into a mining town run by gangsters, where he turns the rival gangs against each other until the streets run red. This is the book that pushed pulp crime writing into literature.
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Five early cases from the pulp magazine where hardboiled fiction was invented, narrated by the fat, nameless operative who never wastes a word on sentiment. Includes the first Continental Op story ever published.
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Sam Spade takes a case from a client who lies about everything and ends up chasing a jewelled statuette that three sets of criminals will kill to own. The novel that fixed the private eye as an American archetype.
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Nine cases from 1924, opening with a novelette where the detective is handed nine useless clues and has to go find the tenth. Reprinted from the original magazine pages with the editors' introductions intact.
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A stolen diamond pulls the Continental Op into a family convinced it is cursed, a fake religious cult and three separate waves of killings. Hammett at his strangest, and one of the few noir novels built as a triptych.
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