Dashiell hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)

The Case of Dashiell Hammett (1982)

As Dashiell Hammett first editions are offered in New York, his biographer pays tribute to the crime writer who transformed US literature

dashiell hammett, the inventor of the hard boiled detective novel. Long live Sam Spade.

The stereotypical detective novel revolutionized American literature when Dashiell Hammett invented it. And he did it with Tacoma on his mind.

Dashiell Hammett was one of the fathers of hardboiled writing in the 1920s. His stories in Black Mask have the lean, pared-down style that was to become the trademark of the tough, action-packed crime yarns that were to follow in the heyday of the magazine. Although his writing career spanned twenty years, Hammett only wrote a handful of novels, of which three are Hammett writing at his peak: Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key. Sadly, Hammett's writing career was ending just…

Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in Maryland in 1894. In his early teens, he left school and worked at various jobs. Finally at age twenty-one he took a job as an operative with the Pinkerton Detective Agency. After World War I began, Hammett signed up to serve in the Motor Ambulance Service, but during the…

Dashiell Hammett