Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett

by Sinda Gregory

Book Overview

Gregory examines each of Hammett's novels--Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man--interms of their form and theme to make clear their twofold appeal. She shows that they succeed not only as popular fiction but as literature. Through literary analysis she shows that within each of his works there are intri­cate literary strategies to be probed and analyzed symbolically, metaphysically,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809311658
• ISBN13: 9780809311651
• Release Date: November 1984
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"