Crime Stories and Other Writings
Contributors: Marcus, Steven
Series: The Library of America -- Vol. 125.
Publisher: Library of America, The; Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam
Published: 2001
Place of publication: S. l
Number of pages: 940
Description: "In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned in into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: 24 in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version of his novel The Thin Man."--BOOK JACKET.