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1951: As the McCarthy witchhunts gathered pace in the United States, crime novelist
Dashiell Hammett was jailed for contempt when he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1951: As the McCarthy witchhunts gathered pace in the USA, crime novelist
Dashiell Hammett was jailed for contempt when he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Bill Haley 1951: As the McCarthy witchhunts gathered pace in the USA, crime novelist
Dashiell Hammett was jailed for contempt when he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Taking the baton from Daly, authors like
Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler became titans of the genre.
Ballard, Robert Leslie Bellem, Erle Stanley Gardner, Craig Rice, David Markson,
Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, John D.
PUBLISHED 1930 THE MALTESE FALCON by
Dashiell Hammett DASHIELL HAMMETT is largely credited with the invention of the modern hard-boiled detective novel and The Maltese Falcon introduced the now archetypal private eye, Sam Spade.
The story is based on
Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel of the same name.
In its early days, it was a Western travelogue; then a literary forum for iconic writers such as Jack London,
Dashiell Hammett, and Sinclair Lewis, as well as a platform for conservationists like John Muir to drive social change.
It's a heavyweight of a collection called The Big Book of the Continental Op that gathers together the 28 short stories, two novels and one unfinished tale starring
Dashiell Hammett's first series detective, known only as 'The Continental Op.'