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  1. 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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  3. 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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  4. Here are the possible solutions for "The --- ---, 1942 film based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett" clue. It was last seen in British general knowledge crossword. We have 1 possible answer in our database.

    • 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.
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  6. Dashiell 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.

  7. Dashiell Hammett has 524 books on Goodreads with 433205 ratings. Dashiell Hammetts most popular book is The Maltese Falcon.

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