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Hammett was born near Great Mills on the "Hopewell and Aim" farm in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, to Richard Thomas Hammett and his wife Anne Bond Dashiell. His mother belonged to an old Maryland family, whose name in French was De Chiel.
Jul 8, 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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Aug 10, 2022 · The IMDB list of the writing credits has “Dashiell Hammett (novels) (uncredited)”. The onscreen credits don’t mention him at all. But it’s so alike that even the apartment of the Ned Beaumont character (called Tom Reagan) is as described in the book. The Thin Man.
Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett 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.
Feb 3, 2002 · At a party in Hollywood in the spring of 1935, Dashiell Hammett was asked by Gertrude Stein to solve a literary mystery.
Dashiell Hammett has 526 books on Goodreads with 434027 ratings. Dashiell Hammett’s most popular book is The Maltese Falcon.
Dec 30, 2003 · About Dashiell Hammett. December 30, 2003. Dashiell Hammett was born on the eastern shore of Maryland in 1894. The second of three children, he dropped out of school at the age of thirteen....
Mar 8, 2011 · Talk Of The Town Again: Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman hold down a table at the 21 Club on New Year's Eve 1944. Hammett, who died in January 1961, gets yet another mystery-magazine byline...
Oct 2, 2017 · 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.
