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After spells as newsboy, freight clerk, labourer, messenger, stevedore and advertising manager, Hammett became an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundation for his writing career. He died in 1961.
Dashiell Hammett's crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam
Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré ... The Maltese
Falcon is the Hammett novel that jumps from the pages of its genre
and into literature
*GUARDIAN*
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*
One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective
story
*THE SCOTSMAN*
The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction
*NEW YORK TIMES*
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*
He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a
writer
*BOSTON GLOBE*
The first fully "hard-boiled" hero in American letters
*NEW YORKER*
This full-cast audio dramatization of Hammett's 1930 pulp fiction best seller features performances by actors Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, and Edward Herrmann. Each narrator reads not only his/her character's lines but the narration associated with that character as well; the resulting abrupt switches can be distracting. The music and other secondary production effects, however, are unobtrusive. A very enjoyable version of a genre classic that is recommended for all popular fiction collections. [Audio clip available through www.blackstoneaudio.com; alternate recordings available from Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America and Books on Tape; the Vintage pb was deemed "the best hard-boiled PI story and one of the great American novels, period," LJ 2/15/05.-Ed.]-I. Pour-El, Des Moines Area Community Coll., Boone, IA Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
Dashiell Hammett's crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam
Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carre ... The
Maltese Falcon is the Hammett novel that jumps from the pages
of its genre and into literature * GUARDIAN *
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 *
One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective
story * THE SCOTSMAN *
The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction * NEW YORK TIMES
*
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
He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a
writer * BOSTON GLOBE *
The first fully "hard-boiled" hero in American letters * NEW YORKER
*
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