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Master of the hard-boiled detective story
American writer Dashiell Hammett.
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The Glass Key
The film noir The Glass Key (1942), directed by Stuart Heisler, was adapted...
© 1942 Paramount Pictures Corporation
The martini-loving Nick and Nora Charles in the The Thin Man (1934)
Dashiell Hammett modeled the husband-and-wife team of his last novel, The Thin...
© 1934 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
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