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Paperback:
9781847665096 | 2 edition (Bloomsbury Professional, July 28, 2016), cover price $190.00
Hardcover:
9780802121585 | Grove Pr, November 4, 2013, cover price $25.00
Paperback:
9780802121592 | Grove Pr, October 14, 2014, cover price $15.00 | also contains The Hunter and Other Stories, The Hunter and Other Stories
CD/Spoken Word:
9781611749120 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, November 5, 2013), cover price $34.95
Product Description: Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last--and most successful--novel. Following the enormous success of "The Thin Man" movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to write stories for additional films...read more
Paperback:
9780802121561 | Grove Pr, October 8, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last--and most successful--novel.
Product Description: The Funland Amusement Park provides more fear than fun these days. A vicious pack known as the Trolls are preying on anyone foolish enough to be alone at night. Folks in the area blame them for the recent mysterious disappearances, and a gang of local teenagers has decided to fight back...read more
Paperback:
9781477806289 | Reprint edition (Amazon Pub, March 12, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Funland Amusement Park provides more fear than fun these days.
Hardcover:
9780802120502 | Grove Pr, November 6, 2012, cover price $25.00
Paperback:
9780972589864 | Vince Emery Prod, September 7, 2005, cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9780787665913 | Gale Group, December 1, 2003, cover price $203.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of primary historical documents that cover the history of the United States in the twentieth century.
Product Description: This award-winning, multivolume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. The series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods...read more
Hardcover:
9780787660246 | Gale Group, August 1, 2003, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning, multivolume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars.
An illustrated guide to the mystery genre's hardest hitting writers focuses on the three men who created a uniquely American brand of detective fiction--Raymond Chandler, Dashiell HAmmett, and Ross Macdonald, the creators of such famed fictional private detectives as PHilip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Lew Archer. Original.
Paperback:
9780786710294 | Carroll & Graf Pub, July 16, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: An illustrated guide to the mystery genre's hardest hitting writers focuses on the three men who created a uniquely American brand of detective fiction--Raymond Chandler, Dashiell HAmmett, and Ross Macdonald, the creators of such famed fictional private detectives as PHilip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Lew Archer.
Paperback:
9781582432106 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, May 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of letters--to friends, lovers, family, and colleagues--by the legendary crime writer reveals the man behind the author as he discusses the craft of writing, his personal life, and his literary creations, Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles.
The daughter of Dashiell Hammett, the Hollywood screenwriter and author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, provides a compelling glimpse into his life, from their relationship to his rude flirtations, heavy drinking, and attraction to Communism, in an engaging and straight-forward memoir that contains never-before-published photos from family albums.
Hardcover:
9780786708925 | Da Capo Pr, October 14, 2001, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the life of the author through the eyes of his daughter, discussing his ties to Communism, his celebrity, his drinking and gambling habits, his relationship with Lillian Hellman, and his behavior as a father.
A collection of letters--to friends, lovers, family, and colleagues--by the legendary crime writer reveals the man behind the author as he discusses the craft of writing, his personal life, and his literary creations, Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles. 20,000 first printing.
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Hardcover:
9781582430812 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A collection of letters to friends, lovers, family, and colleagues by the legendary crime writer as he discussed the craft of writing, his personal life, and his literary creations.
Examines Hammett's life, discusses the historical context of his works, and examines his short stories and novels, including 'The Maltese Falcon.'
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Hardcover:
9780787639648 | Gale Group, December 1, 1999, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Examines Hammett's life, discusses the historical context of his works, and examines his short stories and novels, including 'The Maltese Falcon.
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Hardcover:
9780787631260 | Gale Group, December 1, 1999, cover price $363.00
Product Description: Literary Masters, Literary Masterpieces, and Literary Topics are the three components of Gale's Study Guides to Great Literature. These guides are appropriate for high school readers and, perhaps, somewhat older students who need somewhere to start...read more
Hardcover:
9780787639655 | Gale Group, December 1, 1999, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Literary Masters, Literary Masterpieces, and Literary Topics are the three components of Gale's Study Guides to Great Literature.
Hardcover:
9780787631093 | Gale Group, October 1, 1999, cover price $363.00
Hardcover:
9780787631000 | Gale Group, April 1, 1999, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This text systematically presents career biographies of American Western writers.
Hardcover:
9780787618506 | Gale Group, August 1, 1998, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This volume provides biograhical and analytical coverage of British travel writers between 1910-1939.
Hardcover:
9780787618490 | Gale Group, July 1, 1998, cover price $363.00
Hardcover:
9780787618469 | Gale Group, June 1, 1998, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This volume provides biographical and analytical coverage of British novelists between the wars.
Product Description: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars...read more
Hardcover:
9780787618483 | Gale Group, June 1, 1998, cover price $363.00 | About this edition: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars.
Hardcover:
9780787614812 | Gale Group, May 1, 1998, cover price $203.00 | About this edition: Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, goverment and politics, and science and medicine from the the colonial era onward
Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, goverment and politics, and science and medicine from the the colonial era onward
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Hardcover:
9780787614799 | Gale Group, February 1, 1998, cover price $203.00 | About this edition: Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, goverment and politics, and science and medicine from the the colonial era onward
Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, goverment and politics, and science and medicine from the the colonial era onward
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Hardcover:
9780787614850 | Gale Group, May 1, 1997, cover price $203.00 | About this edition: Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, goverment and politics, and science and medicine from the the colonial era onward
Hardcover:
9780810393646 | Gale Group, September 1, 1996, cover price $155.00
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