The Glass Key

Name: The Glass Key
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Dashiell Hammett
ISBN: 9780679722625

Dashiell Hammett

17/07/1989
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Glass Key par Dashiell Hammett

Résumé

Ned Beaumont is a gambler and a professional troubleshooter for his friend Paul Madvig, a cheerfully corrupt political power broker who aspires to greater things. Madvig has his eyes set on none other than the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. When the senator’s son turns up dead, Madvig becomes the prime suspect. But if he is innocent, then which of his dozens of enemies is doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett’s tour de force of crime fiction combines a bulletproof plot, authentically corrupt characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.