Dashiell Hammett - Wikipedia Hammett is regarded as one of the very best mystery writers [3] In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction " [4] Time included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005 [5]
Dashiell Hammett | Books, Characters, Lillian Hellman, Facts - Britannica Dashiell Hammett was an American writer who created the hard-boiled school of detective fiction His books include The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1934), and his famous characters include Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles
About Dashiell Hammett | American Masters - PBS Hammett spent his early twenties working as a detective in San Francisco before enlisting in the army during World War I He became a sergeant in the Motor Ambulance Corp, where he contracted
Dashiell Hammett - New World Encyclopedia As Hammett's literary style matured, he relied less and less on the super-criminal and turned more to the kind of realistic, hardboiled fiction that characterizes The Maltese Falcon or The Thin Man
Hammett (1982) - IMDb Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco
Dashiell Hammett - Library of America But I didn’t get a picture of the way cities were run until I found the novels of Dashiell Hammett They did a great deal to turn me in the direction of the hard-boiled mystery novel The term hard-boiled is not necessarily connected with violence, it has more to do with a realistic attitude toward life as reflected in the language ”
Hammett, Dashiell - Encyclopedia. com 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