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| | Dashiell Hammett, page 01 A short biography |
 | | Hammett’s work sold well, but in the context of “detective novels,” which were then considered inferior to “real literature.” The critical success of Falcon helped to erase that stigma. | | | Hammett eventually wrote three short stories using the Spade character, and then there was the radio show, but there was only one novel: The Maltese Falcon. | | | Hammett quit being a Pinkerton because his TB flared up, leaving him too sick and weak to do the job. |
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http://www.mikehumbert.com/Dashiell_Hammett_01_Short_Bio.html
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| | Dashiell Hammett |
| | Hammett did not consider his work as separate from mystery fiction of his day; as a mystery reviewer, he covered the whole gamut of Golden Age authors. | | | Hammett's story also resembles Connell's in that both villains patrol their fiefdoms with packs of man eating hounds. | | | Like many of Hammett's puzzle plots, this tale involves looking at the events of the story in a really different way than is first apparent. |
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http://members.aol.com/MG4273/hammett.htm
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| | Dashiell Hammett |
| | Hammett's tale of one man's search for order and truth is as close to a perfect mystery novel as anyone is going to get, and often rises above the genre as a tightly-constructed literary masterpiece, rich in both character and plot. | | | In September 1929, Hammett portrayed another character in a different narrative form (the first person narration was dropped), Sam Spade, the protagonist of one of the most famous detective stories ever written: The Maltese Falcon. | | | Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark shows the author at the peak of his narrative powers. |
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http://www.bastulli.com/Hammett/Hammett.htm
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| | The Maltese Falcon FAQ version 3 |
| | NB: Richard Layman's Dashiell Hammett: A Bibliography, records that the lines 'With a new Introduction by the Author' appear only in the 1934 edition of the novel (ie Hammett's recollections of his Pinkerton day and his description of the influences on the character in TMF are to be found only in the 1934 edition). | | | Hammett had also used the name 'Gutman' for a character in his first (unfinished) attempt at a novel, entitled 'The Secret Emperor'. | | | One of these birds, according to Hammett's fictional account, was 'a glorious golden falcon, encrusted with from head to foot with the finest jewels in their coffers.' (Nolan 1983, p. |
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http://www.ejmd.mcmail.com/-1.htm
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| | Metroactive Books Joan Mellen |
| | Hellman and Hammett is skimpy on the early part of Hammett's life and the events that led up to the writing of his classic novels: Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key. | | | Original Thin Man: Crime novelist Dashiell Hammett's best work was behind him by the time he embarked on a stormy, three-decade-long relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman. | | | They will put down the book more, not less, fascinated by the story of two people who were so much in love for so long because they might have been, in the final analysis, the only two people on earth who could have loved each other. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.18.96/books-9629.html
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| | Dashiell Hammett |
| | Hammett's most famous detective is Sam Spade, who appears only in this novel and three rather trivial short stories produced on demand from his publishers. | | | Yes, the plot might be absurd, as is "Silence of the Lambs" as a modern example, yet works not by overwhelming the attention span by long passages of obfuscation and psychology but by punching and jabbing like Ali in his heydey. | | | Adding to the book's overall power is Hammett's use of the objective third-person viewpoint. |
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http://www.mysterylist.com/hammett.htm
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| | Samuel Dashiell Hammett, Sergeant, United States Army |
| | He wrote that Hammett "wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before." Hammett the man was of a piece with his furtive, devious, almost unknowable main characters. | | | "Hammett is a must-read for anybody writing a crime novel," says Michael Connelly, author of such bestselling novels as The Poet and Blood Work. | | | February 14, 2005, marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon": that riveting tale involving a San Francisco private detective named Samuel Spade and a diverse crew of miscreants, all in search of a coveted 16th-century statuette. |
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http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/shammett.htm
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| | The New York Review of Books: Dashiell Hammett: A Memoir |
| | Whatever Hammett's reasons, the miseries of the Aleutian Islands were not miseries to him. | | | He didn't like writers very much, he didn't like or dislike most people but he was without envy of good writers and was tender about all writers, probably because he remembered his own early struggles. | | | He took a strong and lasting dislike to a man who insisted mackerel were related to herring, and once left my living room while a famous writer talked without much knowledge of existentialism, refusing to come down to dinner with the writer because he said, "He's the greatest waste of time since the parchesi board. |
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/12676
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| | Amazon.com: The Maltese Falcon (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard): Books |
| | Dashiell Hammett's novel, The Maltese Falcon, came to be not only his best-known work but the best-known of the day's noir, even representative of 1930s crime fiction. | | | Hammett draws each character with a vivid eye for detail and for sharp prose that comes at you like bullets from Spade's revolver. | | | Dashiell Hammett : Complete Novels : Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man (Library of America) by Dashiell Hammett |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679722645?v=glance
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Dashiell Hammett |
| | Hammett, who sold all motion picture rights to his book back in 1931&; didn't profit directly from the later two adaptations. | | | Hammett's final novel, The Thin Man, first appeared in Redbook in 1933 and as a book, with a few allegedly risqué lines restored, in 1934. | | | The Maltese Falcon began that same year as a serial and was published as a book by Knopf in 1930&; followed by The Glass Key in 1931. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200512
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| | The Continental Detective Agency - Biography |
| | Hellman did not like her and this together with the drinking, which had turned nasty, forced her to tell Hammett that she had had enough and did not want to see him again. | | | The Dain Curse was published in July 1929; The Maltese Falcon in February 1930 and The Glass Key in January 1931. | | | In 1937 he sold the complete rights to all the Thin Man characters for US$40,000. |
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http://www.transki.freeserve.co.uk/biog.htm
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| | Dashiell Hammett |
| | Analysis: Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" on the 75th anniversary of its publication | | | Works of Dashiell Hammett: Hammett's Themes In The Maltese Falcon | | | Works of Dashiell Hammett: Twenty Character Studies In The Maltese Falcon |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0822562.html
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| | Authors and Creators: Dashiell Hammett |
| | Dashiell Hammett's Introduction to The Maltese Falcon (1934 Edition) | | | He may never never written anything of true significance after 1934 (or at least, nothing close to the magnificense of his earlier work), but the myth of the private eye turned writer lives on. | | | Jackson is a San Francisco cop (not a private eye), long overdue for a vacation, who tries to help a friend find his missing daughter and ends up being abducted by a gang of thieves. |
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http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/hammett.html
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| | Dashiell Hammett |
| | Hammett wrote more than 80 short stories and five novels: "Red Harvest" (1929), "The Dain Curse" (1929), "The Maltese Falcon" (1930), "The Glass Key" (1931) and "The Thin Man" (1934). | | | She was pleased when he told her she was the inspiration for Nora, wife and sleuthing partner of Nick Charles in The Thin Man; however "Hammett said I was also the silly girl in the book and the villainess." | | | He was unable to finish "Tulip," the most autobiographical of all his books. |
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http://www.mysterynet.com/hammett
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| | Dashiell Hammett's legacy lies not only in his writing, but in his living -- rough, wild and on the edge |
| | He found a friend in the avuncular Albert Samuels, with whom he lunched at John's Grill and to whom he dedicated "The Dain Curse.'' A shy man who loosened up after a few snorts of whiskey, Hammett enjoyed the ad game. | | | "I can stand anything I've got to stand,'' says Ned Beaumont, the hero of "The Glass Key.'' That could've been Hammett's motto, his daughter said. | | | This aspiring poet read 'The Maltese Falcon' and his life was transformed. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/07/DDG3DB68LD1.DTL
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| | AllRefer.com - Dashiell Hammett (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | He was the creator of Nick Charles and Sam Spade, the latter being the original tough "private eye." Hammett's novels The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Glass Key (1931), and The Thin Man (1932), are considered classics of the genre; all were made into successful movies. | | | Lillian Hellman, his companion of many years, wrote of their relationship in Pentimento (1973) and other autobiographical works. | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > American Literature, Biographies > Dashiell Hammett |
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| | Dashiell Hammett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Woman in the Dark: A Novel of Dangerous Romance (published in Liberty magazine in three installments in 1933) | | | He wrote his final novel in 1934, and devoted much of the rest of his life to left-wing activism. | | | Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of "hard-boiled" detective novels and short stories. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett
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| | Bleeker Books - Dashiell Hammett |
| | Hammett pioneered both a taut, spare prose style and a hero who is coldly dispassionate, who possesses violence but also discipline, who bends to no will but his own. | | | Hammett was himself a Pinkerton detective for many years before becoming a writer. | | | Dashiell Hammett was the first great writer of the hardboiled school. |
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| | The Dashiell Hammett tour - hosted by Don Herron |
| | During this walk you'll see the buildings where Hammett wrote his most famous stories and the majority of locales from his classic novel, The Maltese Falcon. | | | See the spot where Spade's partner, Miles Archer, with a smile on his mug and his pistol buttoned away under his overcoat, met swift death in the night-fog. | | | Shadow Sam Spade in his quest for the fabulous figurine of a mysterious black bird. |
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| | Salon.com Books From "Red Harvest" to "Deadwood" |
| | The retrospective featured seven films based on Hammett’s books (including an early version of "The Maltese Falcon," 1936's "Satan Met a Lady" with Bette Davis), derived from Hammett’s characters (such as the surprisingly good "Another Thin Man," 1939) or scripted by Hammett itself ("Watch on The Rhine," 1943, with Bette Davis and Paul Lukas). | | | Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," one of the most influential American novels of the 20th century, was published in 1929. | | | The 75th anniversary of Hammett's first novel and his most important contribution to American literature -- to American culture -- came and passed last year without notice. |
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http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/02/28/hammett
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| | Hammett, Dashiell at The Vintage Library |
| | Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author, credited for making popular the hardboiled detective genre. | | | After a relatively short writing career of nine years, Hammett brought his works to Hollywood where a number of his characters and stories, especially Same Spade, made the leap into immortality. | | | Hammett used his first hand knowledge of the detective buisness to create complex and exciting plots and memorable and believable characters. |
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Dashiell Hammett - Encyclopedia Article |
| | He wrote his final novel in 1934, and devoted much of the rest of his life to left-wing activism. | | | Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 - January 10, 1961) was an American author of "hard-boiled" detective novels and short stories. | | | His parents were Richard Thomas and Annie Bond Dashiell (which was an Americanization of the French De Chiel). |
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| | Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore |
| | Though her later relationship with Hammett was rocky, she took care of him in the months before his death from cancer in January 1961. | | | But like Hammett, she was forced to appear before H.U.A.C., which was followed by a $174,000 tax bill and vilification in the press. | | | The New York Times, in addition to the obituary, printed an editorial praising his intricate plots, sharp prose, and 'gift of invention', predicting that "years from now his stories will be in print". |
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| | Dashiell Hammett |
| | Hammett agreed to talk about his own involvement with radical groups, but was unwilling to give names of his comrades. | | | As a result of his well-known political views, in 1951 Hammett was called to appear before the | | | After the war Hammett worked for eights years as a d |
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| | Dashiell Hammett |
| | Dashiell Hammett is the exemplar of 20th Century noir detective writers. | | | Hammett worked as a private eye for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the Flood Building on Market Street before his success as America's author of crime and murder fiction. | | | The Thin Man, Black Mask, and Maltese Falcon author lived in this Tenderloin apartment building, 891 Post Street #401, one of his many San Francisco addresses in the 1920s. |
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| | continental detective agency - dashiell hammett, life, works and more |
| | We hope to bring something of all of these aspects of Hammett's career to life in the pages of these files as well as discuss his works and his legacy as writer. | | | In his lifetime he worked as a strikebreaker for the Pinkertons Detective Agency, whilst incapacitated with TB he wrote advertising copy, he had a spell as a Hollywood writer, he had an intimate friendship with the playwright Lillian Hellman and was persecuted and imprisoned by Joseph McCarthy. | | | Hammett was much more than a successful writer. |
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| | Amazon.com: Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett : 1921-1960: Books |
| | Amazon.com: Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett : 1921-1960: Books | | | SAMUEL DASHIELL HAMMETT was born on May 27, 1894, in rural Saint Mary's County, Maryland. | | | Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett : 1921-1960 (Paperback) |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582432104?v=glance
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| | Major Works: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett |
| | Hammett liked to insert such sequences two-thirds of the way through his novels; usually these "embedded plots" reveal the protagonist's psyche. | | | The "stir-it-up" approach prevails in Hammett's first novel, which emphasizes brilliant scenes, a traditional first-person narrator, dialogue that is funny, and action that is highly stylized, rather than plausible plotting or characterization. | | | Emphasis on epistemology in Sinda Gregory, Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett (Carbondale: University of Illinois Press, 1985). |
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http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Redharvest.html
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| | The Dashiell Hammett Awards for Best Literary Crime Novel |
| | The 2001 Hammett Prize (for novels published in 2000) was presented at Bloody Words in Toronto on June 9 at the Saturday night banquet. | | | The 2003 Hammett Prize (for novels published in 2002) was presented in Ottawa, Canada, on June 14, during the Bloody Words Conference. | | | The winning title is selected by a reading committee of IACW/NA, based on recommendations from other members and the publishing community, and the winner is chosen by three distinguished outside judges. |
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http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv18.html
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| | Dashiell Hammett Bibliography |
| | Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers (2001) by Josephine Hammett | | | Hammett: A Life At the Edge (1983) by William F Nolan | | | Dashiell Hammett: A Life (1983) by Diane Johnson |
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