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John Madvig was a happily corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something greater: the child of Senator Ralph Bancroft Carol, the heiress to an empire of governmental purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was harmless, which of his a large number of opponents was doing an extremely good job of surrounding him? Dashiell Hammettis tour-de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.An one-time detective and a grasp of deft exaggeration, Dashiell Hammett practically created the hard-boiled crime novel.  This traditional Hammet function of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic clarity.