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  1. Early life. Hammett was born near Great Mills on the "Hopewell and Aim" farm in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, [8] to Richard Thomas Hammett and his wife Anne Bond Dashiell. His mother belonged to an old Maryland family, whose name in French was De Chiel.

  2. May 23, 2024 · Dashiell Hammett was an American writer who created the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. (See detective story; hard-boiled fiction). Hammett left school at 13 and worked at a variety of low-paying jobs before working eight years as a detective for the Pinkerton agency.

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  5. Feb 3, 2002 · At a party in Hollywood in the spring of 1935, Dashiell Hammett was asked by Gertrude Stein to solve a literary mystery.

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  6. Dashiell Hammett has 524 books on Goodreads with 433205 ratings. Dashiell Hammetts most popular book is The Maltese Falcon.

  7. Dec 30, 2003 · Learn about the life and work of Dashiell Hammett, the creator of the "hard-boiled" detective genre and the author of THE MALTESE FALCON and THE THIN MAN. Explore his early career as a Pinkerton detective, his literary achievements, his political activism, and his personal struggles.