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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs - messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore - until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best
THE TIMES
Great crime fiction started with Hammett
- James Ellroy,
He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer
BOSTON GLOBE
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used
- Raymond Chandler,
His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow
INDEPENDENT
The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction
NEW YORK TIMES
One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective story
SCOTSMAN