Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joe Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett’s cooly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted generations of readers.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joe Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett’s cooly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted generations of readers.
ISBN 978-0-679-72264-9
Dashiell Hammett
1929
