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Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/ ˌ d æ ʃ ə l ˈ h æ m ɪ t /; 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 (born May 27, 1894, St. Mary’s County, Md., U.S.—died Jan. 10, 1961, New York City) was an American writer who created the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. (See detective story; hard-boiled fiction).
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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.
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 ...
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.
