In his spirited Introduction to a topnotch collection of Great American Detective Stories, Anthony Boucher says: “The detective short story belongs to us. It started in America and it started off magnificently. In five stories, Edgar Allan Poe created the form and almost all its possible variants... There are as many kinds of detective short stories as there are of detective novels — and you’ll find most of them here, from the ethical poetry of Melville Davisson Post to the brash foolery of Frank Gruber.” A glance at some of the titles of the stories included confirms Boucher’s modest words and guarantees that you’ll find plenty of good reading here

What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? “Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing, and sex,” said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett’s style: “Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it... He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes.” Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the golden age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1920s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Hammett’s 1925 tour de force “The Scorched Face,” in which the disappearance of two sisters leads Hammett’s never-named detective, the Continental Op, straight into a web of sexual blackmail amidst the West Coast elite, to Ed Gorman’s 1992 “The Long Silence After,” a gripping and powerful rendezvous involving a middle class insurance executive, a Chicago streetwalker, and a loaded .38. Other delectable contributions include “Brush Fire” by James M. Cain, author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Raymond Chandler’s “I’ll Be Waiting,” where, for once, the femme fatale is not blond but a redhead, a Ross Macdonald mystery starring Macdonald’s most famous creator, the cryptic Lew Archer, and “The Screen Test of Mike Hammer” by the one and only Mickey Spillane. The hard-boiled cult has more in common with the legendary lawmen of the Wild West than with the gentleman and lady sleuths of traditional drawing room mysteries, and this direct line of descent is on brilliant display in two of the most subtle and tautly written stories in the collection, Elmore Leonard’s “3:10 to Yuma” and John D. MacDonald’s “Nor Iron Bars.” Other contributors include Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), Jim Thompson, Helen Nielsen, Margaret Maron, Andrew Vachss, Faye Kellerman, and Lawrence Block. Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Containing many notable rarities, it celebrates a genre that has profoundly shaped not only American literature and film, but how we see our heroes and ourselves

Dešels Hemets Kalsnais Detektīvromāns Pieredzes bagātajam detektīvam Nikam Čārlzam aiziešana pelnītā atpūtā ir īsti pa prātam. Viņam jau daudz kas pieder šai pasaulē: daiļa sieva Nora, šnaucers Asta un neierobežotas iespējas Ņujorkas krogos cilāt glāzīti. Nemūžam viņš vairs nerikšos apkārt, tvarstīdams noziedzniekus un atšķetinādams citu cilvēku samudžinātos dzīvesstāstus! Tomēr izrādās, ka nevajag daudz: kāda blondīne, dažas lodes, neliela nekārtība paša guļamistabā.. un lietišķais Niks Čārlzs tūlīt ķeras pie iemīļotā darba No angļu valodas tulkojis Pēteris Bankovskis Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv Maksliniece Viktorija Kulava ISBN 9984-506-27-4 © Peteris Bankovskis, tulkojums latviesu valoda, 1994 © Viktorija Bulava, makslinieciskais noformejums, Jumava 1994

In their heyday, the true-crime pulp magazines spawned many of the masters of American detective fiction. These early gems have been unearthed and collected here for the first time

Enter a world of seedy nightclubs, dangerous, dimly-lit street and cool, wisecracking dicks pitting themselves against armies of ruthless gangsters. This is pulp fiction, a genre spawned amid the disillusionment of post-World War I America — and now reaching new heights of popularity.　 Writers like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett turned that unique blend of rapid-fire action, violence and cynical humour into an art form that is being recreated by a fresh wave of young writers whose stories have all the drama and atmosphere of their predecessors’.　 This page-turning collection, brought together by a true aficionado of the hardboiled story, includes, of course, Chandler and Hammett, but also Mickey Spillane, Ross MacDonald, Ed McBain and James Hadley Chase from the vintage years and from the current generation James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard and Quentin Tarantino, to name just a few of the twenty great writers featured here. Even Stephen King, doyen of the world of horror, has turned his hand to pulp fiction and is represented in this book.　 The world of the hard-drinking, fast-action, apparently indestructible private eye, personified by Chandler’s creation, Philip Marlowe, was never more vibrant. It’s all here, and more, in a book that no fan of the genre can afford to miss

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luck,” “Ten Carets of Lead,” and “Drop Dead Twice.” Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America’s finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of America’s underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this. Featuring • Deadly Diamonds • Dancing Rats • A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life • A Parrot that Wouldn’t Talk Including • Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as it was originally published • Lester Dent’s Luck in print for the first time

The BIGGEST, the BOLDEST, the MOST COMPREHENSIVE collection of PULP WRITING ever assembled! Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train — a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best. Including: • Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett. • Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel, one of the masters of the form. • A never before published Dashiell Hammett story. • Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many, many more of whom you’ve probably never heard. • Three deadly sections — The Crimefighters, The Villains, and The Dames — with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman. Featuring: • Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good. • A kid so smart — he’ll die of it. • A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning — the hard way — never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger. • The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims

Dashiell Hammett, the bestselling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of America’s most influential and entertaining authors. In spite of his popularity, many Hammett stories — including some of his best — have been out of the reach of anyone but a handful of scholars and collectors — until now. This collection rescues non-series and long-lost Hammett stories, all either never published in an anthology or unavailable for decades. Stories range from the first fiction Hammett ever wrote to his last. All stories have been restored to their initial texts, replacing often-wholesale cuts with the original versions for the first time. Readers of Hammett’s famous mysteries will he surprised by the variety of stories here. They include Hammett’s first detective fiction, humorous satires, adventure yarns, a sensitive autobiographical piece, a Thin Man story told with photos, and a crime tale that Ellery Queen promises “is one of the most startling stories you have ever read.”

The Continental Op made his debut in an October 1923 issue of Black Mask, making him one of the earliest hard-boiled private detective characters to appear in the pulp magazines of the early twentieth century. Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives

One of the Continental Op\'s most bizarre cases as he is faced with Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett who has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they die violently. FROM THE PUBLISHER The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op\'s most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense

Of Hammett\'s sixth book, published in 1931, The New York Times wrote \'\'the developing relationships among the characters are as exciting as the unfolding story.\'\' FROM THE PUBLISHER Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett\'s tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness. A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. This classic Hammet work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness

Twenty-one unknown works from America's hard-boiled legend A dogged P. I. who sees no reason to temper justice with mercy. A boxer whose fears lie outside the ring. A magician with a perilous dedication to his craft. An accidental hero struggling to redefine his identity. Lovers tangled in the attractions and regrets of their relationship. Sam Spade in the one murder mystery he'll never solve. These and other terrific tales make up The Hunter and Other Stories, a landmark literary publication from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett. This collection introduces a dozen never-before-published stories gleaned from Hammett’s archives, revives five seldom seen short-fiction narratives, unveils three screen treatments unearthed from film-industry files, and concludes with an unfinished Sam Spade adventure discovered in a private collection. Hammett is regarded as a pioneer and master of hard-boiled detective fiction, but these works show him in a broader light. His shrewd explorations of failed romance, hypocrisy, crass opportunism, and courage in the face of conflict will both reshape his legacy and reconfirm his extraordinary genius for dialogue, plot, and character. This book’s full-length screen treatments include "On the Make,” the basis for the rarely screened 1935 film Mr. Dynamite — with a corrupt detective who never misses an opportunity to take advantage of his clients rather than help them—and "The Kiss-Off," the story for City Streets (1931), starring Sylvia Sydney and Gary Cooper, who play two people caught in a romance complicated by racketeering’s obligations and temptations. Containing perceptive commentary from distinguished Hammett biographer Richard Layman and Hammett’s granddoughter Julie M. Rivett, The Hunter and Other Stories will be a beloved addition to the canon for longtime Hammett fans and an uniquing introduction a new generation to one of the most influential voices in American fiction

Sam Spade, a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett\'s cooly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted 2 generations of readers. FROM THE PUBLISHER A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O\'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett\'s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers. FROM THE CRITICS New York Times Book ReviewIf the locution \'hard-boiled\' had not already been coined it would be necessary to coin it now to describe the characters of Dashiell Hammett\'s latest detective story. . . there is plenty of excitement. — Books of the Century; New York Times review, February 1930

Featuring the best from the modern masters of detective, intrigue, suspense, and mystery fiction

Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action, surprises, sound and fury. In short, all the exhiliration of a roller-coaster ride. The 1920s in America saw the proliferation of hundreds of dubiously named but thrillingly entertaining pulp magazines in America: Black Mask, Amazing, Astounding, Spicy Stories, Ace-High, Detective Magazine, Dare-Devil Aces. It was in these luridly-coloured publications, printed on the cheapest pulp paper, that the first gems began to appear. The one golden rule for writers of pulp fiction was to adhere to the art of storytelling. Each story had to have a beginning, an end, economically-etched characters, but plenty going on, both in terms of action and emotions. Pulp magazines were the TV of their day, plucking readers from drab lives and planting them firmly in thrilling make-believe, successors

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett\'s most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve crimes in between wisecracks and martinis. FROM THE PUBLISHER Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett\'s most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING Hammett did over and over what only the best writers ever do...he wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before. — Raymond Chandler The most breathless of Hammett\'s stories. — Sinclair Lewis

Nighttime. A young woman appears at the door of an isolated house. She is frightened and hurt. She speaks with a foreign accent. The man and woman inside take her in. Other strangers appear, in obvious pursuit of the girl. There is menace in the air — some unspoken, unexplained aura of violence and misdeed

Змест: Забойства на вуліцы Морг — Эдгар Алан По Адна гадзіна — Дэшыэл Хэмет Ключ да загадкі раскіданых рубінаў — Эрл Стэнлі Гарднер Крылаты рэвальвер — Рэкс Стаўт Да міс Люсі прыходзіць каханне — К. Патрык Дынастаманія — Холі Рот Гадзіна памяці — Уэйд Мілер Плата — Стэнлі Элін Другой пакой — Эдвар Д. Хох Гальштук Вудра Вільсана — Патрыцыя Хайсміт

Английский язык с Д. Хэмметом. Мальтийский сокол Текст адаптирован (без упрощения текста оригинала) по методу Ильи Франка: текст разбит на небольшие отрывки, каждый и который повторяется дважды: сначала идет английский текст с «подсказками» — с вкрапленным в него дословным русским переводом и лексико-грамматическим комментарием (то есть адаптированный), а затем — тот же текст, но уже неадаптированный, без подсказок. Начинающие осваивать английский язык могут при этом читать сначала отрывок текста с подсказками, а затем тот же отрывок — без подсказок. Вы как бы учитесь плавать: сначала плывете с доской, потом без доски. Совершенствующие свой английский могут поступать наоборот: читать текст без подсказок, по мере необходимости подглядывая в подсказки. Запоминание слов и выражений происходит при этом за счет их повторяемости, без зубрежки. Кроме того, читатель привыкает к логике английского языка, начинает его «чувствовать». Этот метод избавляет вас от стресса первого этапа освоения языка — от механического поиска каждого слова в словаре и от бесплодного гадания, что же все-таки значит фраза, все слова из которой вы уже нашли. Пособие способствует эффективному освоению языка, может служить дополнением к учебникам по грамматике или к основным занятиям. Предназначено для студентов, для изучающих английский язык самостоятельно, а также для всех интересующихся английской культурой. Мультиязыковой проект Ильи Франка: www.franklang.ru От редактора fb2. Есть два способа оформления транскрипции: UTF-LATIN и ASCII-IPA. Для корректного отображения UTF-LATIN необходимы полноценные юникодные шрифты, например, DejaVu или Arial Unicode MS. Если по каким либо причинам вас это не устраивает, то воспользуйтесь ASCII-IPA версией той же самой книги (отличается только кодированием транскрипции). Но это сопряженно с небольшими трудностями восприятия на начальном этапе. Более подробно об ASCII-IPA читайте в Интернете: http://alt-usage-english.org/ipa/ascii_ipa_combined.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirshenbaum

Роман Д. Хэммета «Две мертвые китаянки» еще раз подтверждает репутацию автора — мастера крутого детектива, очень популярного среди любителей этого жанра

Во втором выпуске сборника “Частный детектив” представлены произведения классиков детективно–приключенческого жанра — Сэмюэля Дэшила Хэммета, Эрла Стенли Гарднера и Джеймса Хадли Чейза, объединенные тем, что их главные герои не выступают от имени официальных органов охраны правопорядка, а действуют на свой страх и риск. Точный социальный анализ, глубокий психологизм и блестящее мастерство построения сюжета делают романы и новеллы этого сборника интересными для самых искушенных любителей и знатоков жанра. На русском языке большинство произведений, включенных в сборник, публикуется впервые

Мы живем в тревожное время. Мир встретился лицом к лицу с абсолютно новыми проблемами, неведомыми ранее человечеству: в первую очередь — это угроза экологической катастрофы. Но остались и все прежние проблемы: терроризм, коррупция, гангстеризм, проституция, торговля наркотиками, преступления среди молодежи. Мы, МАДПР, — детективные писатели мира и авторы политических романов, объединяющие Восток, Запад и третий мир, представителей разных идеологий, убеждений и религий, мы, которые выпускаем каждую пятую книгу в мире, предлагаем всем Академиям наук — в первую очередь психологам и социологам — организовать совместную конференцию и обсудить трагическую ситуацию с растущей преступностью. Мы, Исполком МАДПР, предлагаем всем газетам, журналам, радио, ТВ, кино и театрам свои консультации и содействие в нашей общей работе — сделать все возможное, чтобы остановить рост преступности в мире

В настоящий сборник, «Детектив США», включены произведения известных представителей криминальной литературы М.Коллинза, П.Беннона, Р.Маршалла и Д.Хэммэта 1.0 — создание файла

В шестой сборник детективов США вошли произведения трех классиков американской криминальной литературы: роман Хью Пентикоста (псевдоним Джадсона Филипса) «Перевертыши» и образцы творчества основателей «крутого детектива» Раймонда Чандлера (короткая повесть «Суета с жемчугом») и Дэшила Хэммета (роман «Тонкий человек»)

Детективы Дэшила Хэммета. Т. 3: пер. с англ. — Рига: Полярис, 1996. В третий том собрания детективных произведений Дэшила Хэммета вошли рассказы, объединенные одним главным героем — безымянным оперативником из агентства «Континентал» — не гений, не затворник, свысока взирающий на глупую повседневность, а простой смертный, вынужденный зарабатывать на жизнь своим нелегким ремеслом детектива. Некоторые рассказы публикуются впервые

В сборник вошли произведения популярных американских авторов, известных любителям детективного жанра

Снова и снова жажда наживы толкает людей на преступления в увлекательных произведениях знаменитых мастеров детективного жанра: Р. Стаута («Игра в бары»), Д. Хэммета («Мальтийский сокол») и Р. Старка («Паркер и дилетант»)

Рассказ из сборника «Как написать детектив»

Книга продолжает серию, открывшуюся сборником «Истории, рассказанные шепотом». Включенные в нее новеллы, принадлежащие к разным жанрам, объединяет одно: в основе фабулы каждой из них лежит загадка, которую необходимо разгадать. Попробуйте сделать это, не дожидаясь разъяснений автора

В сборник вошли литературные работы и воспоминания наиболее известных представителей «детективного» жанра от Конан Дойла и Агаты Кристи до Буало-Нарсежака и Борхеса. Это отнюдь не академические труды, а, напротив, блестящие, острополемические сочинения, где прекрасное знание предмета, проникновение в его «тайны» сочетается с юмором, самоиронией, и читаются они столь же увлекательно, как и представляемый ими жанр. Книга рассчитана на широкого читателя

Дешіл Хеммет (1864–1961) — один з провідних американських майстрів детективного жанру, засновник так званого «крутого», або жорстокого, детективу. Українському читачеві відомі його основні романи «Мальтійський сокіл» (1930), «Скляний ключ» (1931), «Худий» (1934). Повість «Королівські клопоти» вперше опубліковано 1927 року

Дэшилл ХЭММЕТ «МАГИЯ» — чародей и его ученик Андрей БУДАРОВ «ФАНТАСТИЧЕСКИЙ ХЭММЕТ» — тайна мастера Дмитрий КАЛЮЖНЫЙ «СТРАШНАЯ ДЕВУШКА И ПРИШЕЛЕЦ» — они уже здесь! И вы даже не представляете… Иван ГЛОТОВ «КОНСУЛЬТАНТЫ» — из жизни звёзд Э. Ф. БЕНСОН «РОГ УЖАСА» — старый добрый классический хоррор Артём АГЕЕВ «МАСТЕР МНОГОСТОРОННЕГО ТАЛАНТА» — о творчестве Э. Ф. Бенсона Мария ПОЗНЯКОВА «НОМЕР ДЛЯ ДВОИХ С ЛУНОЙ» — мы их придумали или они нас? Михаил ДЕРЕВЯНКО «ПУТЁВКА» — а что, если уехать в параллельный мир? Игорь ЦВЫРКО и Михаил ДЕРЕВЯНКО «МЕЖДУ ПРОШЛЫМ И БУДУЩИМ» — интервью с Михаилом Деревянко Сергей ИГНАТЬЕВ «БРИНКАДОРЕС» — они не могли ждать милостей от природы, они… Владимир МАРЫШЕВ «СРЕДСТВО ОТ ТАРАКАНОВ» — поначалу нам всем было очень радостно Яцек САВАШКЕВИЧ «КЛАД» — почти как в сказке Педро КАМАЧО «ИНЖЕНЕР ВИТРУВИЙ И ДРУГИЕ» — история одной легенды

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