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...earth 800 Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann and, most recently, the wartime commander of the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps, Franz Stangl (TIME, March 10). In this calmly chilling memoir, Wiesenthal contrasts monstrous murderers with gumshoe detective techniques in a manner as spare and striking as anything Dashiell Hammett wrote. Where Hammett's world was big-city crime, Wiesenthal's is the broad scope of human injustice and horror: he becomes a kind of Intercontinental...
...KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. In a collection of his early detective stories, the late founding father of the tough-guy school of fiction proves that he is still at the head of his class...
...KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. In a collection of his early detective stories, the late founding father of the tough-guy school of fiction proves that he is still at the head of his class...
...KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. These collected early detective stories are every bit as fresh as they were 40 years ago, and demonstrate why the many imitators of Hammett's realistic tough-guy technique are just that-imitators...
...KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. These collected early detective stones are every bit as fresh as they were 40 years ago, and demonstrate why the many imitators of Hammett's realistic tough-guy technique are just that -imitators...