Knowhow Book of Spycraft, Falcon Travis,Judy Hindley

Автор: Hammett Dashiell
Название: Maltese falcon & the thin man & red harvest
ISBN: 0375411259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375411250
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 17170.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century.

A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, tangles with a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. The Thin Man introduces Hammett's wittiest creations, Nick and Nora Charles, who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. And in Red Harvest, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective, the Continental Op, takes on the entire town of Poisonville in a deadly war against corruption.

"Dashiell Hammett is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer."--Boston Globe

"Hammett was spare, hard-boiled, but he did over and over what only the best writers can ever do. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before."--Raymond Chandler

"Hammett's prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction."--The New York Times

"As a novelist of realistic intrigue, Hammett was unsurpassed in his own or any time."--Ross Macdonald

"Dashiell Hammett's dialogues can be compared only with the best in Hemingway."--Andr Gide

"Hammett is one of the best contemporary American writers."--Gertrude Stein

Автор: Hammett Dashiell
Название: Maltese Falcon
ISBN: 0752865331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780752865331
Издательство: Orion
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Цена: 9100.00 T
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Описание: One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century. `Influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carre ... The Maltese Falcon is the Hammett novel that jumps from the pages of its genre and into literature` Guardian

Автор: Smith Wilbur
Название: Falcon Flies
ISBN: 0312940718 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312940713
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 4900.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: In 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper--in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness.
Traveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman--into an uncharted world of waterfalls and jungle, teeming wildlife, murderous disease, and the ghastly ruins of an astounding city.
Uncovering their father's trail, Robyn and her brother are in the midst of a slave trade that pours out of Africa like a bloody wound. Now, to survive what they have found, they must make their separate ways out--through pitched battles on land and on sea and through the pride, passions and fury of their hearts

Автор: Katharine Kerr
Название: Gold Falcon, The
ISBN: 0007128703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007128709
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 10550.00 T
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Описание: This is the next instalment of the bestselling fantasy series, the "Deverry Cycle", long-awaited by Katharine's many devoted fans. The powerful dweomermaster Nevyn has been reincarnated, but young Neb knows nothing of his previous life. Orphaned following a cholera epidemic, Neb and his younger brother arrive at the desolate farm of their last living relative and soon learn that a worse plague lurks beyond the western border of Deverry. The savage Horsekin tribes, spurred on by their new goddess, Alshandra, are raiding the villages and taking slaves as the first step in their plans to destroy the nomadic Westfolk and the Deverrian farmers both. Neb finds love and danger as he and his soulmate Branna are drawn inexorably into a war for the survival of the kingdom itself. Although they have powerful allies in the Westfolk dweomermasters Dallandra and Salamander, they are also facing mighty enemies, enemies that they have fought before in the past lives that they no longer remember! Intricately interweaving human and elven history over several hundred years, Katharine Kerr's enthralling and moving tale of extraordinary characters living their many lives through exceptional times is epic fantasy on truly a grand scale.

Автор: Peters Elizabeth
Название: The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense
ISBN: 0061951641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061951640
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 6960.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: From the prolific New York Times bestselling author, Elizabeth Peters, comes the newly repackaged Amelia Peabody mystery THE FALCON AT THE PORTAL (#11).