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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.
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Dec 30, 2003 · Learn about the life and work of Dashiell Hammett, the creator of the "hard-boiled" detective genre and the author of THE MALTESE FALCON and THE THIN MAN. Explore his early career as a Pinkerton detective, his literary achievements, his political activism, and his personal struggles.
- Red Harvest. “I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.
- The Dain Curse. The detective is still the Continental Op. The agency is still a business that must make money. The Op still has to report to his superiors.
- The Maltese Falcon. The center piece. The one. I read somewhere, but I can’t, for the life of me, find the quote to credit it, that “Hammett did what Hemingway was said to have done.”
- The Glass Key. The Glass Key is a novel of character. Yes, there’s a murder. Whodunnit is a mystery. It even gets solved. It takes place in a small city. A corrupt city.
Feb 3, 2002 · At a party in Hollywood in the spring of 1935, Dashiell Hammett was asked by Gertrude Stein to solve a literary mystery.
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Samuel Dashiell Hammett authored hardboiled novels and short stories. He created Sam Spade ( The Maltese Falcon ), Nick and Nora Charles ( The Thin Man ), and the Continental Op ( Red Harvest and The Dain Curse ) among the enduring characters.
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