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A new collection of crime stories from the legendary hard-boiled writer Dashiell Hammett. The author of classic novels The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon, Hammett has been called ´a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer´ (The Boston Globe), while Raymond Chandler raved that Hammett ´wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.´ Two previously unseen ´Thin Man´ novellas were recently published together as Return of the Thin Man, which garnered strong praise: the New York Journal of Books called it a reason to ´rediscover why Dashiell Hammett was the peerless master of crime fiction in all its dark and bloody glory,´ while The Wall Street Journal praised it as ´an occasion for delight.´ This new collection, The Hunter and Other Stories, includes several more never-before-published short stories, and, like the screenstories from Return of the Thin Man, the pieces here read as novellas - rich in both storyand character - that no Hammett fan should do without.

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A new collection of crime stories from the legendary hard-boiled writer Dashiell Hammett. The author of classic novels The Thin Man (1934) and The Maltese Falcon (1938), Hammett has been called ´a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer´ (The Boston Globe). This new collection, The Hunter and Other Stories, includes several never-before-published short stories, and, like the screen stories from Return of the Thin Man, the pieces here read as novellas - rich in both story and character - that no Hammett fan should do without.

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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland and worked in a number of menial jobs until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career.

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