Dashiell Hammett

Before there was the writer we now know as Dashiell Hammett - author of

Memphis Flyer 2009

'The Thin Man,' Dashiell Hammett's fifth and final novel, turns 75 this month.

Archive 2009-01-18 Bill Crider 2009

The Book Collector stories are told in a nameless First Person such as Dashiell Hammett made famous.

G. W. Thomas Interview Dave Tackett 2008

The Book Collector stories are told in a nameless First Person such as Dashiell Hammett made famous.

Archive 2008-11-01 Dave Tackett 2008

Great American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Ray Bradbury were among those producing fiction in pulp format, and to match their brilliance, artists of the first rank appeared to illustrate the work.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

Parker resurrected and modernized the literary private-eye tradition made popular in the years just before and just after World War II by such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald when he muscled his way onto the stage with The

The American Spectator Larry Thornberry 2010

Upstairs, locked behind thick metal doors designed to withstand a 14-hour fire, is the heart of Prince’s collection, ceiling-high shelves filled with ultra-rare inscribed editions of works by 20th-century literary icons such as Dashiell Hammett, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, among countless others.

Richard Prince's Outside Streak 2007

My parents (Alan and Jeanna Struthers) were educated hippies; they named me Nora after Nora Charles (wife of Nick, Dashiell Hammett's dashing character from The Thin Man that went on to TV and film fame) and they named me Jane after (English author) Jane Austen. ...

Michael Bialas: Faces of Telluride, Part 3: Nora Jane Struthers, Fresh Face Michael Bialas 2011

Of the '30s and '40s crime novelists, no one --- not Raymond Chandler, not Dashiell Hammett --- could jam as much nastiness into so few pages.

Jesse Kornbluth: HBO Launches Kate Winslet in 'Mildred Pierce' In March. Read James M. Cain's 1941 Novel Now. Jesse Kornbluth 2011

Of the '30s and '40s crime novelists, no one --- not Raymond Chandler, not Dashiell Hammett --- could jam as much nastiness into so few pages.

Jesse Kornbluth: HBO Launches Kate Winslet in 'Mildred Pierce' In March. Read James M. Cain's 1941 Novel Now. Jesse Kornbluth 2011