Dashiell Hammett
American author and screenwriter, a leading figure of hard-boiled detective fiction; best known for The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and Red Harvest. Worked as a Pinkerton detective before becoming a novelist.
Books
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2. La Chiave Di Vetro
A hard‑boiled crime tale following a stoic fixer who defends a powerful politician’s interests when a violent death and ensuing scandal threaten a city’s crooked power structure; as he digs deeper into the murder he encounters double-crosses, shifting alliances and a fraught romantic entanglement that force him to weigh loyalty against truth and reveal the personal costs of ambition and corruption.
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3. L'uomo Ombra