94 results for 'Hammett, Jerilou'

Dashiell Hammett, like most successful writers, honed his skills in the trenches. Long before The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man made him a household name, Hammett developed his technique writing...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, who is considered one of the best detective-story writers in America. As an...

A Study Guide for Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography;...

Full Title:Opinion of Hon. John M. Read, in Hammett Against the City of Philadelphia, In Favor Of The Constitutionality of the act of 23D March, 1866Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials,...

The Jerilderie and Cameron Letters are Ned Kelly's only extant writings.

The Jerilderie Letter Part Two: Australia's Corrupt Prime MinistersFrom the back cover:Australia's democracy was stolen long ago, if we ever had one, by corrupt political parties who are pillaging...

A collection of short stories of pulp crime fiction. With stories written by Dashiell Hammett, Carroll John Daly and Robert Leslie Bellem

Seasoned church consultant Edward H. Hammett shares his latest insights and suggestions for churches seeking to serve all generations. This is an updated version of Hammett's 2007 book Reaching...

Discover the genius of Dashiell Hammett, arguably the finest writer to grace the pages of Black Mask magazine. Now part of the authorized Black Mask Library, Hammett's groundbreaking Continental Op...

"'FOREVER MAN is Dashiell Hammett 2.0' (Brad Parks): A hilarious and biting neo-noir send-up of Silicon Valley, written pseudonymously by New York Times tech reporter Matt Richtel"--

What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? Lee Horsley's updated study of the genre, now available in paperback, ranges over hundreds of...

Murder multiplied by SEVEN!Supercharged action and breath-taking suspense in this carnival of crime from the blood-dripped pen of Paul Cain, a connoisseur of crime who writes in the best homicidal...

Paperback Quarterly, journal of mass-market paperback history, Volume 4 Number 3, Fall 1981, contains: "Norman Daniels -- the Writer as Assembly Line," by Michael S. Barson, "An Interview with Norman...

A MYSTERY CLASSIC IS BORN . . . The Black Mask is without a doubt the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. In its pages writers such as Earl Stanley Gardner and Dashiell...

Firmly set in the period of Pulp and Noir tales of the twentieth century in an unnamed American city -Beat To A Pulp delivers poetry that is full of the jive talk you would expect to read in...

Dashiell Hammett is the undisputed master of hardboiled detective fiction, and one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Originally published in the October 1923 issue of Black Mask, 'Arson...

Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged individualism. This book focuses on Raymond...

This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett during a crucial half-decade when they transformed the detective story. The characters they...

Ex-cop Mas Hammett, now a private investigator, encounters Sophie Chandler. Her sister has been murdered, and it looks like a serial killer has come to San Francisco. The only link between the...

During the forty years which have passed since Masuzo Shikata published his paper on the reduction of nitrobenzene at a dropping mercury electrode, the number of polarographic studies of organic...

Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which...

A failed screenwriter turned private detective has his life turned upside-down when he’s talked into stealing MacGuffin, an unusual Tinseltown memento, from the home of one...

In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart...

In this seminal work, Louis P. Hammett presents the results of his groundbreaking research on the properties of the hydrogen electrode. A must-read for anyone interested in the field of...

In 1968, Theodore Hammett entered a war he believed was wrong, pressured by his father's threat to disown him if he withdrew from a Marine Corps officer candidate program. He hated the Vietnam War...

Designed for mystery lovers as well as professors and students in college courses devoted to detective fiction, this anthology features classic texts, pivotal works by lesser-known authors, and...

Leading critic S.T. Joshi reviews surveys the work of 13 mystery and crime writers, ranging from the Golden Age, Hardboiled school, the Psychological Mystery, and Contemporary Writers.The Golden...

"Follow your dreams" is not her family's motto.But this Christmas, Sarah's doing the unthinkable-defying her wealthy parents.Instead of fulfilling expected holiday obligations, she visits a quaint...

Siempre han estado aquí. Vampiros. En la oscuridad y en secreto. Esperando. Ahora ha llegado su momento. En una semana, tomarán Manhattan. En un mes, el país entero. En dos meses, el mundo. El...

This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H...

It Began with a Simple Accident, or was it an Attempted Murder?A femme fatale. Her missing husband. A dead private detective. And a dangerous game of mistaken identity...It all started when Jonas...

Beginning in the 1970s, a new generation of writers took over the hard-boiled story (created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett) and transformed it to fit the realities of their world-a...

A dark mystery in the spirit of the early Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The setting is New Orleans in 1994, when the Big Easy was known as the murder capital of the U. S. A.; police...

Laughing Death is a story of gunfire and airships, of love and revenge. Sanford Greer (S.G.), Prosecuting Attorney of Center City, is put "on the spot" by five men. Gary Greer, who is the pilot in...

Presenting the complete collection of Robert E. Howard's private eye stories starring Steve Harrison! Everything in this volume - stories, drafts, synopses - was pulled directly from Howard's own...

Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and...

GFP is widely used as a biological marker because of its superb fluorescence properties. We have synthesized GFP chromophore and its derivatives, and their photochemistry and photophysics were...

In Coastside Detectives, Distant Islands, the world-weary detective Mike Mason becomes embroiled in the local politics of coastal preservation when he is called upon to explain his involvement with...

From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a...

A shut-and-opened case?The beautiful heiress had done a foolproof job on herself. After a large dose of sleeping pills, she'd slashed her wrists, then climbed into the tub and drowned.Only her fiance...

BRAGG V1The first three, powerhouse novels in Jack Lynch's Edgar Award-nominated and two-time Shamus Award-nominated Bragg series. Private investigator Peter Bragg learns that The Dead Never Forget...