Hammett, Dashiell

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A twentieth-century American writer of finely crafted detective fiction. His novel The Maltese Falcon introduced Sam Spade, a tough, cynical, “hard-boiled” type of private eye. Hammett was jailed briefly and blacklisted after the infamous “red-baiting” hearings of the early 1950s.

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The popular 1941 film version of The Maltese Falcon starred Humphrey Bogart with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre, who reunited for the classic film Casablanca.

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How to use Hammett, Dashiell in a sentence

[the seminal pulp crime magazine which first published Hammett].
The Man With Stories to Tell|Allen Barra|December 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Despite its sizeable influence on American fiction and film, Red Harvest remains the only Hammett novel never to have been filmed.
The Man With Stories to Tell|Allen Barra|December 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Robert Graves thought Hammett was better than either Chandler or Asbury and called The Maltese Falcon, “a literary landmark.”
The Man With Stories to Tell|Allen Barra|December 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Suddenly taking off: Huckleberry, Dashiell, Scarlett, Atticus, Chaplin, Zane, McKinley, and Lincoln.
Hot Baby Names for 2014|Linda Rosenkrantz & Pamela Redmond Satran|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Add A.J. Liebling, Raymond Chandler, Hammett, Cain, and the boys, Nelson Algren and William Kennedy.
Daniel Woodrell: How I Write|Noah Charney|September 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Does Hammett still talk about 'percepting the subject' and 'emerging the high-lights' and 'profunding the shadows'?
The Orchard of Tears|Sax Rohmer
It is sold for ten cents by Hammett, publisher, in Brattle street, Boston.
Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School|Elizabeth P. Peabody
Colonel Hammett drew upon every resource of business and personal friendship to tide the venture over from 1873 to 1876.
The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South|Broadus Mitchell
A debt of gratitude is due to the memory of Sir Benjamin Hammett, for his exertions, at that period, in the cause of humanity.
Notes & Queries, No. 47, Saturday, September 21, 1850|Various
He was uneasy right away, because he had failed to arrange with Hammett how long he was to stay locked up.
100%: The Story of a Patriot|Upton Sinclair