Hammett
[ham-it]
- (Samuel) Da·shiell [duh-sheel, dash-eel] /dəˈʃil, ˈdæʃ il/, 1894–1961, U.S. writer of detective stories.
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Contemporary Examples
[the seminal pulp crime magazine which first published Hammett].
Despite its sizeable influence on American fiction and film, Red Harvest remains the only Hammett novel never to have been filmed.
Robert Graves thought Hammett was better than either Chandler or Asbury and called The Maltese Falcon, “a literary landmark.”
Add A.J. Liebling, Raymond Chandler, Hammett, Cain, and the boys, Nelson Algren and William Kennedy.
But we never really read Chandler—or Hammett—for their mysteries, we read them for language and atmosphere.
Historical Examples
Ford and Hammett are at the dock all ready to search him when I give the word.
Under CoverRoi Cooper Megrue
In truth, the supper down at the old Hammett farmhouse, after the work of the day was over, was the principal event.
Janice DayHelen Beecher Long
Walky Dexter was going to drive out to the Hammett place after supper to pick up his load of young people.
Janice DayHelen Beecher Long
Does Hammett still talk about 'percepting the subject' and 'emerging the high-lights' and 'profunding the shadows'?
The Orchard of TearsSax Rohmer
It is sold for ten cents by Hammett, publisher, in Brattle street, Boston.
Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary SchoolElizabeth P. Peabody
Hammett
- Dashiell. 1894–1961, US writer of detective novels. His books include The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1932)
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