Crooked Souls ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction ♦ Audiobook Sho...

Crooked Souls ♦ By Dashiell Hammett ♦ Detective Fiction  ♦ Audiobook Short Story



Title:  Crooked Souls



Author:  Dashiell HAMMETT



Genre(s): Detective Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Winston Tharp



Librivox Recording



Crooked Souls is “a crime story about people with problems” and contends that it is “Hammett's first great Op classic of the crime genre. As the evocative title indicates, here Hammett already evinces more interest in the character.” While “Slippery Fingers” is a relatively straightforward murder mystery that adheres to the conventions of the genre, “Crooked Souls” details the “dogged, routine detective work” that biographer Richard Layman cites as the distinguishing characteristic of Hammett’s later stories. Some of that investigative work could be tedious: “Shadowing is the easiest of detective work,” Hammett wrote to the editors of Black Mask in 1924. “Back—and it’s only a couple of years back—in the days before I decided that there was more fun in writing about manhunting than in that hunting, I wasn’t especially fond of shadowing, though I had plenty of it to do.”



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