Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoroughbred senator's daughter; but does he want it badly enough to commit murder? If he's innocent, who wants him in the frame? Beaumont must find out.
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Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoroughbred senator's daughter; but does he want it badly enough to commit murder? If he's innocent, who wants him in the frame? Beaumont must find out.
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Add this copy of The Glass Key (Crime Masterworks) to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by Robert Harper Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hyattsville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Orion.
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GOOD in GOOD jacket. Size: 5x0x8; 212 clean, unmarked, tight pages with light tanning; small stain on bottom edge of textblock; cover is clean and sturdy with slightly bumped upper corners; very light shelf and corner wear on dust jacket with remnants of a price sticker on front.
Add this copy of The Glass Key to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Eat My Words rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Orion.
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Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0752851322. Binding tight. Pages unmarked but a little tanned. Cloth cover has little or no wear. Dustjacket has only minor wear to edges, and otherwise fine.; Crime Masterworks; 139 X 23 X 205 millimeters; 224 pages.
