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Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/ ˈ d æ ʃ ə l ˈ h æ m ɪ t / DASH-əl HAM-it; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist.
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May 23, 2024 · Dashiell Hammett was an American writer who created the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. (See detective story; hard-boiled fiction). Hammett left school at 13 and worked at a variety of low-paying jobs before working eight years as a detective for the Pinkerton agency. He served in World.
Aug 10, 2022 · That’s what makes Hammett’s five crime novels the five best works to measure ourselves against. Red Harvest “I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte.
Dec 30, 2003 · Hammett spent his early twenties working as a detective in San Francisco before enlisting in the army during World War I. He became a sergeant in the Motor Ambulance Corp, where he contracted ...
Dashiell Hammett, an American, wrote highly acclaimed detective fiction, including The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1934). Samuel Dashiell Hammett authored hardboiled novels and short stories.
Dashiell Hammett has 524 books on Goodreads with 433363 ratings. Dashiell Hammett’s most popular book is The Maltese Falcon.
Mar 8, 2011 · Hammett, who died in January 1961, gets yet another mystery-magazine byline this week with a story called "So I Shot Him." He gave us both Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles — so for a ...
Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), one of the masters of crime fiction, first introduced his iconic private eye, Sam Spade, in his famous 1930 novel, The Maltese Falcon. His next book, The Thin Man, published in 1932, features the incomparable and charming sleuths Nick and Nora Charles.
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/ˈsæmjʊəl dəˈʃiːl ˈhæmət/; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the ...
