Hammett

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1. Hammett - Noun

2. Hammett - Proper noun

Meaning

United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961)

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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need. Ross Macdonald

Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. Raymond Chandler

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. Charles Frazier

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. James Ellroy

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. Rian Johnson

As a result, the headstock was changed to the typical ESP style, but flipped upside down. citation citation * ESP M-II Standard – EMG and Seymour Duncan, Hammett used this a lot in the studio and live. Source: Internet

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