《woman in the dark》是2011年Random House US出版社出版的圖書，作者是Dashiell Hammett。
基本介紹
- 中文名：woman in the dark
- 作者：Dashiell Hammett
- 出版社：Random House US出版社
- ISBN：9780679722656
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
A young, frightened, foreign woman appears at the door of an isolated house. The man and woman inside take her in. Other strangers appear in pursuit of the girl. Menace is in the air. Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark shows the author at the peak of his narrative powers. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker, the author of the celebrated Spenser novels.
作者簡介
Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grewup in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age offourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy,newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming anoperative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited youngHammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work andinjuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from thelast of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soonturned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became theunquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. InThe Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famousprivate eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered anotherimmortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), TheDain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are amonghis most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett againserved as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years,most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett’s later life wasmarked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonmentrelated to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and byhis long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom hehad a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographicalfiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is contained in theposthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited byLillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The ContinentalOp (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the finalHammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or “operative”)who displays little of his personality, making him a classic toughguy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett himself.
