How To Use Hammett In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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It's a kind of hard-boiled detective novel in the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
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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
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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.
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Terse, spare, laconic, elliptic; at its sharpest it is comparable with Hemingway's, a writer with whom Hammett is often bracketed.
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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
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Several of his films were shot in the US, including the ill-fated Hammett and the acclaimed Paris, Texas.
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The man was subsequently lynched and thereafter Hammett believed he was living in a corrupt society.
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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.
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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.
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“Some people connect the term film noir,” writes Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, “to the famous yellow-and-black Série Noire series of translations of American writers like Chandler and Hammett published by Gallimard.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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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.
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Set in Los Angeles, the show follows the tradition of the hardboiled dicks portrayed by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James Cain, Ross McDonald.
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Hammett was Raymond Chandler's acknowledged master, but as a sheer stylist the student surpassed the mentor.
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At the time Hammett was taking private guitar lessons from now famous Joe Satriani. In 2002, he became the first inductee into Guitar World magazine's Hall of Fame.
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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
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It opens bluntly with the title sentence and then goes on in a rat-a-tat style familiar to Hammett's legion of fans.
The Guardian World News
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Let's get one thing straight - Dashiell Hammett is the greatest author of hard-boiled detective fiction there ever was, or ever will be.
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It should be noted, regarding Hammett's disinclination to sell out his employer in this story, that this desperately ill, lifelong claustrophobe, an old man at the age of fifty-seven, spent twenty-two weeks in federal prison during the Red-baiting fifties because he refused to give up the names of men who had trusted him.
Locked Rooms
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Dashiell Hammett's cynical detective novel was published in 1929 and was immediately popular.
