Dashiell Hammett
1894-05-27 - 1961-01-10
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53 ratings · 204 works
American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), The Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
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- American Detective and mystery stories
- Fiction
- Private investigators
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Private investigators, fiction
- Continental Op (Fictitious character)
- Sam Spade (Fictitious character)
- Continental op (fictitious character), fiction
- United States
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