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"In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife."
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Classical in form, grave, spare and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 406
- Publisher
- Dell, Knopf, Vintage
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375401114
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American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), The Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
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