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馬爾他之鷹

內容簡介

內容簡介 「馬爾他之鷹」，十六世紀時進獻給西班牙國王的希世珍寶，離奇失蹤後又在舊金山現身，引來各路人馬爭相追逐，甚至引發了三樁謀殺案，私家偵探山姆史貝德的合夥人，也是受害人之一。一度被警方視為嫌犯的史貝德，為了追查合夥人的死因，也捲入了「馬爾他之鷹」的追逐戰，經過一番鉤心鬥角爾虞我詐的爭奪後，得到的竟是偽造的假貨；而躲在幕後操控一切的兇手是他早在意料之中卻最不願意面對的人--本中文書介出自《馬爾他之鷹》臉譜出版社出版"

作者介紹

作者介紹 Dashiell HammettDASHIELL SAMUEL HAMMETT was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter--messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett's later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographical fiction survives in the story ""Tulip,"" which is contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the final Hammett character: the ""Op,"" a nameless detective (or ""operative"") who displays little of his personality, making him a classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold--a bit like Hammett himself.

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