The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett, is a detective story first published in serial form in 1929 and 1930 in a famous pulp magazine of the day, Black Mask. The magazine specialized in the tough-guy vernacular and clever cynicism of “hardboiled” detective fiction, of which The Maltese Falcon became a prime example. It was first published in book form in 1930.
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
After a series of unsatisfying jobs, Dashiell Hammett became an agent for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in 1915. Hammett enjoyed the thrill of the som...
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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was a seminal figure in the development of the peculiarly American contribution to crime fiction--the hard-boiled detective story.Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born of Engli...
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"I'm one of the few--if there are any more--people moderately literate who take the detective story seriously," Dashiell Hammett wrote to his publisher in 1928 at the beginning of his novel-writing ca...
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Biography EssayIn March 1928, just after Dashiell Hammett had submitted his first novel for publication, he wrote to his editor, Blanche Knopf, that unlike most moderately literate people, he took det...
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Dashiell Hammett is generally credited with bringing a new degree of authenticity as well as artistry to the crime fiction that flourished in the pulp magazines of the first decades of the twentieth c...
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The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett
(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett