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Dashiell Hammett
Saint Mary's County, Maryland, USA
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activi…
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Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9. Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In 1990, the Crime Writers' Association picked three of his five novels for their list of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Five years later, four out of five of his novels made The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time as selected by the Mystery Writers of America. His novels and stories also had a significant influence on films, including the genres of private eye/detective fiction, mystery thrillers, and film noir. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dashiell Hammett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2024
Monsieur Spade
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2005
Let Sleeping Guns Lie
Movie Thanks
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2002
No Good Deed
Movie Novel
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1993
Fallen Angels
TV show Story
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1986
The Gang
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1981
The Wizard of Malta
Movie Novel
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1978
The Crimson Night of the Hawk
Movie Novel
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1978
The Dain Curse
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1975
The Black Bird
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1975
Nick and Nora
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1948
Studio One
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1947
Song of the Thin Man
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1945
Secret Agent X-9
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1944
The Thin Man Goes Home
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1943
Watch on the Rhine
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1942
The Glass Key
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1941
Shadow of the Thin Man
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1941
The Maltese Falcon
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1939
Another Thin Man
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1937
Secret Agent X-9
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1936
After the Thin Man
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1936
Satan Met a Lady
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1935
The Glass Key
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1935
Mister Dynamite
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1934
Woman in the Dark
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1934
The Thin Man
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1931
The Maltese Falcon
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1931
City Streets
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1930
Roadhouse Nights
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