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Hammett left school at 13 and worked at a variety of low-paying jobs before working eight years as a detective for the Pinkerton agency.

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Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. ( , 10 His first novel was Red Harvest, published in 1929. He’s just “The Op”- a private investigator and operative stationed in the San Francisco office of the Continental Detective Agency. (See detective story; hard-boiled fiction). Dashiell Hammett was born May 27, 1894, in St. Mary's County, Maryland, to Richard Hammett and Mary Bond.

Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). Audio CD Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? ( Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. 10

Still, Dashiell Hammett stands with his two most prominent successors, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, as part of the unholy trinity of great, distinctively American crime writers. He dropped out of high school after his freshman year and held a series of odd jobs—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, and stevedore—before becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency in 1915, at the age of twenty-one. Dashiell Hammett has 282 books on Goodreads with 330031 ratings.

Though he would continue to write for radio during the forties, THE THIN MAN was to be his final novel.For the remainder of his life, Hammett dedicated himself to left-wing political involvement and the defense of civil liberties. He joined the Baltimore branch of the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1915. The story has been adapted several times for the cinema. , Mass Market Paperback But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him ?

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