Dashiell Hammett - Wikipedia
WEBSamuel 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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Dashiell Hammett | Hard-boiled fiction, detective stories, crime ...
WEB23 May 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.
Dashiell Hammett (Author of The Maltese Falcon) - Goodreads
WEBDashiell 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.
Books by Dashiell Hammett (Author of The Maltese Falcon) - Goodreads
WEBDashiell Hammett has 520 books on Goodreads with 430834 ratings. Dashiell Hammett’s most popular book is The Maltese Falcon.
Dashiell Hammett - IMDb
WEBDashiell Hammett. Writer: The Thin Man. Dashiell Hammett was born May 27, 1894, in St. Mary's County, Maryland, to Richard Hammett and Mary Bond. He joined the Baltimore branch of the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1915.
About Dashiell Hammett | American Masters - PBS
WEB30 Dec 2003 · Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer Premiere: 6/30/1999 In less than ten years he would be turning these experiences into some of the most popular detective stories of his time.
Reading group: Dashiell Hammett, the dean of hard-boiled …
WEB16 Dec 2014 · Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not with hand-wrought duelling...
Sam Spade - Wikipedia
WEBSam Spade is a fictional character and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon. Spade also appeared in four lesser-known short stories by Hammett. The Maltese Falcon, first published as a serial in the pulp magazine Black Mask, is the only full-length novel
Dashiell Hammett | Encyclopedia.com
WEB14 May 2018 · Dashiell Hammett >Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was a seminal figure in the development of the >peculiarly American contribution to crime fiction—the hard-boiled >detective story.