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Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy

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Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy
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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs - messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore - until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.
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