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...woman stared at Nunheim dully and said, "I don't like crooks, and even if I did. I wouldn't like crooks who are stool pigeons, and even if I liked crooks who are stool pigeons. I wouldn't like you." Dashiell Hammett, The Thin...
...Dashiell Hammett was boru in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, in May of 1894 and died 67 years later a few hundred miles north in New York City. In the intervening years he was a detective, an invalid and one of Faulkner's drinking partners. He annoyed Hemingway, raised the wrath of the McCarthyites, fought in two wars, went to jail and revolutionized the now well-known genre of detective fiction. From Red Harvest through The Maltese Falcon. The Thin Man and a hundred more short stories, he developed and became the epitome of the hard-boiled but literate writer...
...colleague--want to be an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to best anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander, or client. Dashiell Hammett...
Raymond Chandler, himself a hard-boiled writer, learned everything he knew from Hammett, as would Mickey Spillane and the rest of the hacks whose books would sell in the millions from racks in drugstores from sea to shining sea. In most respects they had it a lot easier than Hammett ever would, since Hammett didn't have the luxury of imitation or the luxury of being, like Spillane, a literary conglomerate. Still Chandler knew what the key to Hammett was. He wrote...
...Hammett took murder out of the Venetian Vase and dropped it into the alley; it doesn't have to stay there forever, but it looked like a good idea to get as far as possible from Emily Post's idea of how a well-bred debutante gnaws at a chicken wing...