Hammett

[ ham-it ]

noun

1. (Samuel) Da·shiell [d, uh, -, sheel, dash, -eel], 1894–1961, U.S. writer of detective stories.

Hammett

/ ˈhæmət /

noun

1. HammettDashiell18941961MUSWRITING: crime writer Dashiell. 1894–1961, US writer of detective novels. His books include The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1932)

Example Sentences

[the seminal pulp crime magazine which first published Hammett].

From The Daily Beast

Despite its sizeable influence on American fiction and film, Red Harvest remains the only Hammett novel never to have been filmed.

From The Daily Beast

Robert Graves thought Hammett was better than either Chandler or Asbury and called The Maltese Falcon, “a literary landmark.”

From The Daily Beast

Add A.J. Liebling, Raymond Chandler, Hammett, Cain, and the boys, Nelson Algren and William Kennedy.

From The Daily Beast

He self-consciously tries to ape the mannerisms of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

From The Daily Beast

Does Hammett still talk about 'percepting the subject' and 'emerging the high-lights' and 'profunding the shadows'?

From Project Gutenberg

It is sold for ten cents by Hammett, publisher, in Brattle street, Boston.

From Project Gutenberg

Colonel Hammett drew upon every resource of business and personal friendship to tide the venture over from 1873 to 1876.

From Project Gutenberg

A debt of gratitude is due to the memory of Sir Benjamin Hammett, for his exertions, at that period, in the cause of humanity.

From Project Gutenberg

He was uneasy right away, because he had failed to arrange with Hammett how long he was to stay locked up.

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