Biographer Layman (Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett) and Rivett, Hammett's granddaughter, offer a deeply involving anthology of the voluminous correspondence of Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), ...

Dashiell Hammett was the quintessence of a misty, sometimes chilly and always mysterious San Francisco of the '20s and '30s - foghorns on the bay, wet and dimly lit sidewalks, guy with his hat pulled ...

One of the greatest pulp mystery novels of all time is now in the public domain, and this remains one of the best noir ...

COLUMBIA S.C. (CBS/AP) -- A major collection of letters, photos and publications of the late crime fiction author Dashiell Hammett has been acquired by the University of South Carolina and will be ...

He gave us both Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles — so for a generation of readers, Dashiell Hammett more or less defined both "hard-boiled" and "suave." Not bad, that. Now, from the long-deceased ...

The man who made the American style of detective fiction international and who, according to his peer and contemporary Raymond Chandler, “gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for ...

"When Samuel Spade knocked on the door it swung open far enough to let him see the mutilated dead face of a woman." That's the opening line of "A Knife Will Cut for Anybody," the thin slice of a never ...

Raymond Chandler, the man who walked through the door Dashiell Hammett kicked open, paid him the sincerest homage. In his oft-quoted essay on the American detective story, “The Simple Art of Murder,” ...

A collection of Dashiell Hammett’s papers and his books has been acquired by the University of South Carolina, the university announced Wednesday. The archive includes letters between Hammett and his ...

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