How To Use Hammett In A Sentence
- But he left the word gunsel because Hammett had used it so casually that Shaw took it for granted that the word pertained to a hired gunman. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
- Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett have taught Huge everything he needs to know about being a hard-boiled detective ... and hes just been hired to solve his first case. Huge: Summary and book reviews of Huge by James Fuerst.
- It's a kind of hard-boiled detective novel in the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
- Hammett and his followers, Chandler wrote, "gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not with hand-wrought duelling pistols, curare, and tropical fish. Review of "Think of a Number," a thriller by John Verdon
- Most of the stories printed here were first published in Black Mask, a pulp fiction magazine which epitomised the unsentimental, bracing, hard-boiled style of which Hammett proved the prototype.
- Terse, spare, laconic, elliptic; at its sharpest it is comparable with Hemingway's, a writer with whom Hammett is often bracketed.
- The Charles on the page has a lot more in common with the author's earlier protagonists (especially Continental Op), who clearly don't have a clue what's happening around them, but succeed by taking a crazy situation and exacerbating it to its breaking point another really telling omission (on a par with the excision of the Flitcraft narrative from Maltese Falcon) is the interpolated tale of cannibalism, which casts an extraordinary pall upon even the jokiest moments of Hammett's Thin Man... The Thin Man
- Several of his films were shot in the US, including the ill-fated Hammett and the acclaimed Paris, Texas.
- The man was subsequently lynched and thereafter Hammett believed he was living in a corrupt society.
- In Hammett's novel, the Flitcraft episode disrupts the diegesis both literally, by inserting extraneous material into the ‘plot,’ and figuratively, by exposing the instability of all narratives.
