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The Maltese Falcon
Hammett, Dashiell

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The Maltese Falcon is a 1929 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story has been adapted several times for the cinema. The main character, Sam Spade, appears in this novel and in three lesser-known short stories and is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre. Raymond Chandler’s character Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Hammett’s Spade. Spade was a departure from Hammett’s nameless detective, The Continental Op. Spade combined several features of previous detectives, notably his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, unflinching, sometimes ruthless, determination to achieve his own form of justice, and a complete lack of sentimentality.

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Hammett, Dashiell - El agente de la Continental - Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: ePub
El agente de la Continental es un detective privado que trabaja para la Agencia Continental de Investigaciones de San Francisco. Se caracteriza por su ambigua moral. No duda en intervenir en los casos a los que se enfrenta (More) manipulando la situación y dando lugar a que se precipiten los hechos, utilizando métodos tan cuestionables como los de los criminales a los que persigue (de hecho fue con este personaje y con Sam Spade, junto con el posterior Philip Marlowe de Raymond Chandler, con el que nacería el subgénero negro denominado hard boiled). Esta edición contiene los relatos que fueron publicados por primera vez en la revista pulp Black Mask, entre 1924 y 1930: La décima pista (enero de 1924), La Herradura Dorada (noviembre de 1924), La casa de la calle Turk (abril de 1924), La muchacha de los ojos de plata (junio de 1924), El Menda (marzo de 1925), La muerte de Main (junio de 1927), El crimen de Farewell (febrero de 1930). No es hasta 1945 cuando se publica por primera vez un volumen con estos relatos (The Continental Op).
Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon - Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
The Maltese Falcon is a 1929 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story has been adapted several times for the cinema. The main (More) character, Sam Spade, appears in this novel and in three lesser-known short stories and is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre. Raymond Chandler's character Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Hammett's Spade. Spade was a departure from Hammett's nameless detective, The Continental Op. Spade combined several features of previous detectives, notably his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, unflinching, sometimes ruthless, determination to achieve his own form of justice, and a complete lack of sentimentality.
Hammett, Dashiell - Cosecha roja - Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: ePub
Cosecha roja desarrolla la violenta historia de un detective privado que se propone limpiar de gángsters una pequeña ciudad minera. En ella se compendian ya los elementos característicos de la posterior novela negra (More) norteamericana: el desarrollo de una compleja trama argumental en un contexto social contemplado con mirada crítica, la denuncia de la corrupción de la sociedad capitalista, la rigurosa objetividad descriptiva y los diálogos fluidos e incisivos.
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