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Jan 1, 1982 · Dashiell Hammett. 3.93. 54 ratings4 reviews. When a wealthy young girl runs away to live the hard and fast life, her parents decide there’s no persuading her to come home, so they hire the Continental Detective Agency to keep tabs on her. Eventually, the girl drops off the radar and when she seems to resurface, the Continental Op is put on ...
About the Author. Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in 1894 in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, and his family moved to Baltimore when he was five. He dropped out of high school after his freshman year and held a series of odd jobs—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, and stevedore—before becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s National Detective ...
Jun 3, 2018 · Analysis of Dashiell Hammett’s Novels. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on June 3, 2018 • ( 1 ) Unlike most of their predecessors in the genre, Dashiell Hammett’s detectives live and work, as did Hammett himself, in a world populated with actual criminals who violate the law for tangible personal gain. Significantly, Hammett did all of his creative ...
The Thin Man. The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in a condensed version in the December 1933 issue of Redbook. It appeared in book form the following month. A film series followed, featuring the main characters Nick and Nora Charles, and Hammett was hired to provide scripts for the first two.
Kildehenvisninger foreligger sammesteds. Samuel Dashiell Hammett (født 27. maj 1894, død 10. januar 1961) var en amerikansk forfatter, født i St. Mary’s County, USA og død i New York City. Hammett skrev fortrinsvis kriminalnoveller, men også kriminalromaner, hvoraf 6 er udkommet på dansk.
Jul 17, 1989 · Red Harvest. Paperback – July 17, 1989. by Dashiell Hammett (Author) 4.2 1,593 ratings. Book 1 of 2: The Continental Op. See all formats and editions. From one of the great pioneers of detective stories, a classic novel reissued with a new introduction by S.A. Cosby. The steadfast and sturdy Continental Op has been summoned to the town of ...
Dashiell Hammett's third novel, The Maltese Falcon (1930), set the standard by which all subsequent detective fiction would be judged. Hammett's clean prose and sharp ear for dialogue produced an exceedingly readable novel with enough twists to keep the reader turning the pages in search of clues.
