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Like "Red Harvest", "The Glass Key" is a novel about political crime (i.e., crimes of corruption, extortion and bribery committed by politicians in order to achieve and maintain government positions, or positions of authority) at the beginning of the 1930's.
About The Glass Key. From one of the great pioneers of detective stories, a classic tale reissued with a new introduction by Laura Lippmann Ned Beaumont is a gambler and a professional troubleshooter for his friend Paul Madvig, a cheerfully corrupt political power broker who aspires to greater things. Madvig has his eyes set on none other than ...
A crooked political boss, Paul Madvig, falls for Janet Henry, daughter of a prospective Baltimore governor, and decides to mend his ways. However, when Janet’s no-good brother turns up dead, Madvig’s past returns to haunt him as he is a likely suspect. Which of his enemies conspired to frame him?
Mar 23, 2024 · Jake Gyllenhaal's Road House, which debuted on Amazon Prime Video on March 21, is set in Glass Key, a Florida area. Promotional material for the 2024 reboot placed the core location for the story on a "nondescript Key, south of Marathon," as did story details from the film itself. In the real world, Marathon is located about 50 miles northeast ...
Apr 19, 2016 · Unlike most of Hammett’s works, the protagonist of The Glass Key isn’t a private detective; Ned Beaumont is a gambler, and the friend of a criminal boss. The action starts when he discovers the body of a senator’s son, and his friend wants him to help cover it up as a means of gaining the senator’s favour.
The Glass Key is directed by Stuart Heisler and adapted by Jonathan Latimer from a story written by Dashiell Hammett. It stars Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Joseph Calleia, William Bendix & Bonita Granville.
Sep 14, 2014 · The Glass Key. Dashiell Hammett. Orion, Sep 14, 2014 - Fiction - 240 pages. Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . ' Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy. 'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES. Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling ...
