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Dashiell Hammett

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  1. United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961)

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  • Dashiell Hammett's cynical detective novel was published in 1929 and was immediately popular.
  • Let's get one thing straight - Dashiell Hammett is the greatest author of hard-boiled detective fiction there ever was, or ever will be.
  • Set in Los Angeles, the show follows the tradition of the hardboiled dicks portrayed by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James Cain, Ross McDonald.
  • True, the city wasn't much like that housing Sam Spade in Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled fiction, but then I knew better than to imagine it would be.
  • Rebus, though, is a good deal more than an identikit clone of the hard-boiled detectives whose stock has little varied or improved since Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.
  • It's a kind of hard-boiled detective novel in the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
  • Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett have taught Huge everything he needs to know about being a hard-boiled detective ... and he’s just been hired to solve his first case. Huge: Summary and book reviews of Huge by James Fuerst.
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