Dashiell Hammett
Noun
Meaning
United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961)
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Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.
Cooper appeared in the Dashiell Hammett crime film City Streets playing a westerner who gets involved with big-city gangsters in order to save the woman he loves.
As a young girl I read Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler a lot, and I really liked that kind of hardboiled and humorous metaphor.
"Dashiell Hammett was the creator of some of the most famous American detectives of the early 20th century, including Sam Spade and Nick Charles.