Pulp Fiction Week~

For the Pulp Fiction week I read Dashiell Hammett’s The Glass Key. The Glass Key is about Ned Beaumont who is a gambler. He is not a detective, but a political fixer for construction magnate Paul Madvig. The setting is in a depression era that you feel as you read the book. Ned Beaumont is very unlucky through out the book.

In the story Ned Beaumont finds the body of Senator Henry's son. Madvig wants Ned Beaumont to interfere in the D.A.'s investigation of the body. Ned Beaumont wants to “sink” the “corrupt senator but Madvig gets in the way by backing the senator.

Ned Beaumont goes to New Year to collect a gambling debt, but gets beaten up and then more drama unfolds.

I had to read this book tice to understand what was going on in it. I found out that after I read it again the story was easier to read a fallow.