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Woman in the Dark A Novel of Dangerous Romance
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- A.A. Knopf
- Pages
- 75
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780394572697
- Language
- en
Literary Fiction
About the book
A young, frightened, foreign woman appears at the door of an isolated house. The man and woman inside take her in. Other strangers appear in pursuit of the girl. Menace is in the air. Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark shows the author at the peak of his narrative powers. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker, the author of the celebrated Spenser novels.
