Woman in the Dark: A Novel of Dangerous Romance

ix, [1], 75, [1] pp. Introduction by Robert B. Parker, author of the Spenser series. First published in Liberty magazine in 1933, then as a pulp paperback edition in the 1950s, this Knopf edition is the first appearance in hardcover. Inspiration for the 1934 film starring Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy. 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.