Dashiell Hammett

"Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people who do it for a reason, not just to provide a corpse; and with means at hand, not with handwrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropical fish."

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:Raymond Chandler, in The Simple Art of Murder

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Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of "hard-boiled" detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (The Dain Curse).

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Raymond Chandler: Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American author of crime stories and novels. His influence on modern crime fiction has been immense, particularly in the writing style and attitudes that much of the field has adopted over the last 60 years....

The Simple Art of Murder: The Simple Art of Murder is an essay by Raymond Chandler on the art of detective fiction originally published in The Atlantic Monthly. Later re-issued as a book along with eight of Chandler's early stories (i.e., before The Big Sleep) about the murder of a politician, a hotel detective, missing pear...

May 27: May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining....

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