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Dashiell Hammett
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Jo Hammett |
"Dashiell Hammett - Hollywood screenwriter and high-flying author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man - died in 1961. For the more than forty years since, his daughter, Jo Hammett, has kept her si… |
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Dashiell Hammett
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Sally Cline |
"Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the fig… |
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The lost detective
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Nathan Ward |
"A fascinating portrait of the overlooked Dashiell Hammett-- from his years as a Pinkerton detective to becoming the author of arguably the most iconic detective novels of the twentieth century"-- |
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Novels
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Dashiell Hammett |
Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929) epitomizes the violence and momentum of his Black Mask stories about the anonymous detective the Continental Op, in a raucous and nigh… |
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