The Glass Key
The Glass Key ( engl. The Glass Key 1931) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett. This book is his fourth "hard (English ' hard-boiled ') novel" and his most political.
Action
The novel is in a city somewhere in the U.S., dominated by a clique of corrupt, amoral and almost exclusively on their self-interest thoughtful men (the women are a little better off ). Whether the Senator who wants to achieve his re-election, the chief of police who wants to keep his job, one or the other nightclub owner, crooks, player or gambler who fear for their benefits, or Paul Madvig that holds most firmly in hand, down to the to the senator's daughter and his own, they all stuck deep in the "swamp ".
An exception is the "hero" of the book Ned Beaumont. Although he is no less selfish and amoral, but a bit less corrupt, a little loyal and certainly not " so deep " in the swamp.
Conclusion
Hammett takes here, by Red Harvest, for the second time in a novel, the corruption and the involvement of American politics to organized gangsterism that prevailed well at that time ( Prohibition ), the subject of a novel.
Film
Novels Red Harvest | The Curse of the house Dain | The Maltese Falcon | The Glass Key | The Woman in the Dark | The Thin Man
Short stories The large folding / detective at Continental 's | The Return of the Continental OP | A Man Named Thin
- Literary work
- Literature ( 20th century)
- Literature ( English )
- Crime Fiction
- Literature (United States)
- Dashiell Hammett
- Novel, epic