THE NOVELS OF DASHIELL HAMMETT

The most of the first, and probably the greatest (Chandler is the only contender) in the genre he created— this one volume collection contains The Thin Nan, Red Harvest. The Dain Curse, and his insuperable The Glass Key and The Maltese Falcon. Hammett, Haycraft said; gave the American detective story a nationality of its own. Through it he not only made history but achieved a kind of immortality.