num_pages: 76
description: On a dark night a young woman seeks refuge at an isolated house. She is hurt and frightened. The man and woman who live there take her in. But their decency is utterly unequipped to deal with the Woman in the Dark, or with the designs of the men who want her.First published in installments in Liberty magazine [in 1933] and now rediscovered after many years, Woman in the Dark shows Dashiell Hammett at the peak of his narrative powers. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker, the author of the celebrated Spenser novels.A one-time detective and a maser of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel.
language: English
title: Woman in the Dark
titlecomplete: Woman in the Dark
characters: Harry Klaus, Brazil, Danny Link, Grant (Woman in the Dark), Evelyn Grant, Kane Robson, Ralph Barry, George Dunne, Dick Conroy, Nora Grant, Helen, Fan Link, Luise Fischer
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Hard Boiled, 20th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 1437
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard