Dashiell Hammett’s legacy

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vendredi 09 décembre 2005 [n° 170]


“Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons.”

–Raymond Chandler

Dashiell Hammett’s legacy lies not only in his writing, but in his living — rough, wild and on the edge Jesse Hamlin, Chronicle Staff Writer February 7, 2005

The Maltese Falcon, Perma M3074 (1957)
Front: Stanley Meltzoff

The Maltese Falcon Part One : Hammett’s novel at The Dashiell Hammett website

The Maltese Falcon Part Two : the movie

Hammett’s ‘Maltese Falcon,’ 75 Years Later by Joe Palca NPR.org

The Maltese Falcon FAQ version 3

The Maltese Falcon’s 75th anniversary

Dashiell Hammett wrote more than 80 short stories and five novels: “Red Harvest” (1929), “The Dain Curse” (1929), “The Maltese Falcon” (1930), “The Glass Key” (1931) and “The Thin Man” (1934).

He also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett

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“Dashiell Hammett, who died the other day, was that rare thing — a shaker of the earth, an authentic. “The Maltese Falcon” was one of the best books of its kind ever written. It struck the publishing world and reading world — which is something entirely distinct from the literary world — like a thunderclap. Nothing has been the same since.

Realism. Vigor. Vitality. Callousness. Immorality. Amorality. Muscular. Hard-boiled. They were all words applied to Hammett at various times. But authentic fits him better. ”

The words are those of New York Herald Tribune columnist John Crosby, penned in the immediate aftermath of Hammett’s death on January 10, 1961.


January Magazine, Let’s talk about the black bird, by J Kingston Pierce, February 2005

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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)

Après avoir travaillé comme détective pendant six ans dans la célèbre agence Pinkerton Dashiell Hammett publie sa première histoire policière dans “Black Mask”. Il publie ensuite coup sur coup les cinq romans qui font de lui le père du roman policier “hard-boiled” (“dur-à-cuire”). Il met en scène un détective intègre et désabusé, Sam Spade, qui dénonce la corruption du monde politique et des affaires.


  1. more at MysteryNet.com
    Dashiell Hammett : A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection
    ClueLass : DeadLine News blog
    Mystery Scene [back]
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