Crime Stories and Other Writings
Dashiell Hammett
Crime Stories and Other Writings is a celebrated work by Dashiell Hammett (Hardboiled Pioneer), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
Read Time: ~3.7 hr
Pour One for the Devil
by Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. (2024)
About this book
A blistering Indigenous noir thriller following an ex-con drawn into a deadly southwest desert caper of dirty money, cartel enforcers, and old Chicago debts where double-crosses are the only certainty.
Setting / LocationChicago & American Southwest
Story EraContemporary
Protagonist / CoreEx-con & Street Legend
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