![]() ![]() He became a detective at the ripe old age of nineteen when he joined the Baltimore branch of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, housed in the Continental Building. ![]() He grew up, a working class kid, on the streets of Philadelphia and Baltimore. His name appeared in the credits to The Fat Man, and other radio shows featuring his characters, and alongside Alex Raymond’s on the private eye/spy daily comic strip Secret Agent X-9. As if creating the archetypical private eye Sam Spade in The Maltese Falconwasn’t enough, he was also responsible for The Continental Op and The Thin Man, the novel that introduced husband and wife sleuths Nick and Nora Charles to the world, and became the basis for a string of incredibly popular movies. In between, he was one of the seminal creators in crime fiction a distinctive and influential stylist. Mary’s County, Maryland, on May 27th, 1894, and died January 10, 1961, in New York, New York. “Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons.”ĭ ashiell Hammettwas born in St. Pseudonyms include Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett ![]()
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