He was a dashing, elusive figure who rose from rural working-class roots to become one of the best paid and most celebrated American writers of the 1930s. A free-spending sybarite who nearly drank ...

Tall and dapper with a mysterious air, Dashiell Hammett seemed to have stepped out of the pages of one of his famous hard-boiled detective novels. It seems only fitting given that Hammett practically ...

Raymond Chandler, who has yet to appear in this series, once said: “Hammett is all right. I give him everything. There were a lot of things he could not do, but what he did, he did superbly.” He added ...

COLUMBIA S.C. (CBS/AP) -- A major collection of letters, photos and publications of the late crime fiction author Dashiell Hammett has been acquired by the University of South Carolina and will be ...

In five novels and dozens of stories, Dashiell Hammett almost single-handedly invented the hardboiled private detective in modern crime fiction. Using his experience as a Pinkerton operative, Hammett ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A major collection of letters, photos and publications of the late crime fiction author Dashiell Hammett has been acquired by the University of South Carolina and will be made ...

The man who made the American style of detective fiction international and who, according to his peer and contemporary Raymond Chandler, “gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for ...

Hammett completists and film fans will best appreciate this collection containing the story treatments that became After the Thin Man (1936) and Another Thin Man (1939), the sequels to the original ...

His family roots ran deep in the “Old Line State.” Dashiell Hammett, aka Samuel “Dash” Dashiell Hammett, was born on a tobacco farm in 1894, in Saint Mary’s County, Maryland. Before Hammett died in ...