Dashiell Hammett

SAMUEL DASHIELL HAMMETT (1894-1961) was an author of hard-boiled detective fiction, as well as a political activist. He is best known for his novels The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest, and The Dain Curse. He died of cancer in 1961.

He is the author of:

The Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960