First Published: Liberty Magazine (3 instalments), 1933
Edition Read: Vintage Crime, 1989
ISBN: 0-679-772265-3
Subtitle: A Novel of Dangerous Romance
Though beautifully written, this novella is primarily interesting for what it says about the sort of hero Hammett thought he was creating in his writings. This time he incarnated that hero as a woman.
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First Published: Harper Collins, 2007
Edition Read: Harper Collins, 2007
ISBN: 978 0 00 714982 7
*** Random Book ***
You have to be at least somewhat impressed by a book that creates an alternate history in which atom bombs dropped in Europe and Marilyn Munroe Kennedy as the First Lady are mentioned in a totally off-hand, background manner.
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First Published: 1980
Edition Read: Orb, 2008
ISBN: 978 0 7653 2082 7
Some books seem ho-hum or “not bad” all the way through and then, in the last few pages, end in a blaze of glory. This is one of those books.
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