The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett
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A 2016 Edgar Award Nominee Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor Maryland family, Hammett left school at fourteen and held several jobs before joining the Pinkerton National Detective Agency as an operative in 1915...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:080277640X
ISBN13:9780802776402
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:Bloomsbury USA
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.86 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"
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