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dashiell hammett
He claimed that as a Pinkerton detective, he had worked the Fatty Arbuckle & Nicky Arnstein cases
Trivia about dashiell hammett
Sam Spade
Desperate for money, he churned out "The Thin Man" in 1934, creating Nick & Nora Charles
One of this former Pinkerton detective's first hard-boiled novels was "The Dain Curse"
This lover of Lillian Hellman is credited with creating the hard-boiled type of detective fiction
It doesn't take a P.I. like his Sam Spade to find this man's grave at Arlington; it's in Section 12, Lot 508
He based Nora Charles of "The Thin Man" on his friend Lillian Hellman
Sam Spade
Before Nick & Nora Charles, he created the nameless Continental Op
He wrote hard-boiled detective novels like "The Maltese Falcon" & "The Thin Man"
"The Big Knockover", a collection of his stories & short novels, was edited by Lillian Hellman
In "Julia", Jane Fonda played Lillian Hellman & Jason Robards played this author, her lover
In 1965 Lillian Hellman re-issued 5 of his detective novels
His 1st published story, "The Parthian Shot", ran in The Smart Set in 1922, before he began doing his spadework
"The Thin Man"(1934)
"It's all right, Miles," Spade told him. "Come in. Miss Wonderly, this is Mr. Archer, my partner"