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Overview: From the Continental Op of the early Black Mask stories to Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon and the urbane Nick Charles of The Thin Man ,the hard-boiled gumshoe was the creation of Dashiell Hammett. He transformed the sleuth of Victorian parlors into the tough guy private eye of the 1920s. In this biography renowned detective novelist and critic Julian Symons examines the consummate craftsman whose precision revolutionized a genre.
Here the many personae of the Hammett legend are uncloaked: cynical Pinkerton agent, absentee husband and father, companion of Lillian Hellman, alcoholic bon vivant, political activist, master sergeant, gentleman of quiet dignity, and champion of laconic prose.
Hammett was a major talent who fascinated, exasperated, and eventually eluded Alfred Knopf, Bennett Cerf, William Randolph Hearst, MGM, Paramount, and Joe McCarthy. A uniquely critical portrait of America’s premier detective novelist, Dashiell Hammett cuts deeply into the life and literary development of the writer who elevated crime fiction from pulp to a distinguished place in American literature.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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