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Dashiell Hammett

American author of hard-boiled detective fiction

1894–1961 Mystery
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About Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, and also a screenwriter and political activist. He created Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man, and the Continental Op in Red Harvest and The Dain Curse. His obituary in The New York Times called him the dean of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction.
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