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Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960

by Dashiell Hammett

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The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man -- the novels of Dashiell Hammett are world-famous, their hardboiled characters a part of the American psyche. But unlike most of our great writers, the man himself has remained private, elusive. Now hi... Read more
The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man -- the novels of Dashiell Hammett are world-famous, their hardboiled characters a part of the American psyche. But unlike most of our great writers, the man himself has remained private, elusive. Now his biographer, Richard Layman, and his granddaughter, Julie M. Rivett, have gathered a treasure trove of Hammett's letters, almost all of them from private collections, almost all of them previously unpublished. "Reading them," writes Diane Johnson, "is the closest we can come to knowing the enigmatic, mild author of those powerful, original novels." Less

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File size9.5 X 6.13 X 1.64 in
Print pages672
PublisherCounterpoint
Publication date May 5, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781582432106
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Dashiell Hammett
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Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – Jan 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring ...

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