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Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) spent eight years as a Pinkerton detective before tuberculosis ended his career and turned him toward writing. His experience in the ugly realities of crime gave his fiction an authenticity that no previous mystery writer could match. In five novels written between 1929 and 1934, he single-handedly invented the hard-boiled detective genre. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Maltese Falcon.
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Start with The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, ranked #136 in the Canon Compass list.
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Hammett's The Maltese Falcon: Sam Spade hunts a priceless statuette through San Francisco's underworld. The novel that defined hard-boiled fiction.