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The Maltese Falcon

3,287 words, approx. 11 pages

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett After a series of unsatisfying jobs, Dashiell Hammett became an agent for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in 1915. Hammett enjoyed the thrill of the som... Read more

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Dashiell Hammett

6,957 words, approx. 24 pages

Biography EssayIn March 1928, just after Dashiell Hammett had submitted his first novel for publication, he wrote to his editor, Blanche Knopf, that unlike most moderately literate people, he took det... Read more

Dashiell Hammett

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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was a seminal figure in the development of the peculiarly American contribution to crime fiction--the hard-boiled detective story.Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born of Engli... Read more

Dashiell Hammett

5,928 words, approx. 20 pages

"I'm one of the few--if there are any more--people moderately literate who take the detective story seriously," Dashiell Hammett wrote to his publisher in 1928 at the beginning of his novel-writing ca... Read more

(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett

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Dashiell Hammett is generally credited with bringing a new degree of authenticity as well as artistry to the crime fiction that flourished in the pulp magazines of the first decades of the twentieth c... Read more