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...Samuel Dashiell Hammett, 66, seclusive insomniac whose tours-de-corpse (Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon) revolutionized detective fiction by taking murder out of the hands of English butlers and giving it back to the people who usually commit it; of chronic lung disease; in New York City. A onetime Pinkerton agent who hung on to his job only because of the literary quality of his reports, Hammett contracted TB while an ambulance driver during World War I and, while convalescing, perfected a bone-clean prose style perfectly suited to a brutal world of crime in which private cops were...
...article on [the theft of six art masterworks from the Toronto Art Gallery -Sept. 28], you say "the thieves . . . dodged from room to room while Pinkerton guards made their final rounds before closing...
Vice President and General Manager Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, Inc. New York City...
...robbery occurred six weeks after the Pinkerton contract ended. TIME erred...
...were questions that no one could answer. But gallery officials were sure that the robbers had carefully cased the joint, since not one alarm in an intricate security system had been sounded. Most plausible theory: the thieves sauntered into the gallery before closing, dodged from room to room while Pinkerton guards made their final rounds before closing...