Hammett, Dashiell
A twentieth-century American writer of finely crafted detective fiction. His novel The Maltese Falcon introduced Sam Spade, a tough, cynical, “hard-boiled” type of private eye. Hammett was jailed briefly and blacklisted after the infamous “red-baiting” hearings of the early 1950s.
notes for Hammett, Dashiell
The popular 1941 film version of
The Maltese Falcon starred Humphrey
Bogart with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre, who reunited for the classic film
Casablanca.