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Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born on May 27th, 1894 at Saint Mary's County, Maryland. Despite a short education he laid the groundwork for his classic writing by later working for the famous Pinkerton National Detective Agency. During this employment he took time off to serve in the war but this was limited to catching Spanish flu and then tuberculosis ensuring he spent most of his Army time as a patient at Cushman Hospital in Tacoma, Washington. His health issues had become further exacerbated by his heavy drinking and by the time he was writing full time he had become an alcoholic. That jump into writing was immeasurably helped by his work at Pinkertons which provided both source material and inspiration, especially for his earlier works in the 1920s which centered on detective fiction. His first published work was in 1922 for the magazine The Smart Set . This would lead to his hard-boiled pulp classics— Red Harvest , The Maltese Falcon , The Glass Key and The Thin Man being his most well known. As Raymond Chandler said of him "He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before." By 1934 Hammett had written his last novel and was embarked on a 30 year affair with

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Author

Dashiell Hammett

Publisher

Deadtree Publishing

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781785434464

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Mystery