La Chiave Di Vetro by Dashiell Hammett

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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