Dashiell Hammett - Wikipedia Hammett wrote most of his detective fiction while he was living in San Francisco in the 1920s; streets and other locations in San Francisco are frequently mentioned in his stories
Dashiell Hammett | Books, Characters, Lillian Hellman . . . 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
Dashiell Hammett - Book Series In Order Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of Hard Boiled Detective fiction He can even be considered a pioneer in the genre as it has influenced many in the genre especially writers like Raymond Chandler
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
Kirk Hammett: Bio And Career Highlights | Bored Panda Explore Kirk Lee Hammett journey, from co-founding Exodus to becoming Metallica’s iconic lead guitarist Learn about his achievements, background, and rise to fame
The Five Great Novels of Dashiell Hammett - CrimeReads There are two godfathers of modern crime writing, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler For my money Hammett was the better writer Even if Chandler had the gaudier patter Chandler was a superb analyst of the genre