Word: hammett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. In a collection of his early detective stories, the late founding father of the tough-guy school of fiction proves that he is still at the head of his class...
...KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. In a collection of his early detective stories, the late founding father of the tough-guy school of fiction proves that he is still at the head of his class...
...KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. These collected early detective stories are every bit as fresh as they were 40 years ago, and demonstrate why the many imitators of Hammett's realistic tough-guy technique are just that-imitators...
...KNOCKOVER, by Dashiell Hammett. These collected early detective stones are every bit as fresh as they were 40 years ago, and demonstrate why the many imitators of Hammett's realistic tough-guy technique are just that -imitators...
...this anthology Playwright Lillian Hellman, who shared and sheltered many of Hammett's years, has contributed an introduction that pays sentimental homage to his talent. She has also included the fragment of a serious novel, undertaken late in Hammett's life and never published before. There is just enough of it to suggest that the author did his creative spirit a disservice in confining it to literature's underworld...