Biographer Layman (Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett) and Rivett, Hammett's granddaughter, offer a deeply involving anthology of the voluminous correspondence of Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), ...

Dashiell the cat is pictured Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at The Raven Book Store in downtown Lawrence. If your working life has consisted of loafing in the sun with your nose in a book and being admired ...

A 1910 Tenderloin apartment building that “Maltese Falcon” author Dashiell Hammett once called home is on the market for $6.25 million. The 35-unit-building at 620 Eddy Street was listed this week in ...

Here’s a mystery to solve: What connection does Columbia have to Dashiell Hammett, the legendary mystery writer of the early 20th century? The solution is this: The connection is Richard Layman, who ...

Dashiell Hammett gave us Sam Spade, not to mention Nick and Nora Charles. Now, from the long-deceased author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin... 50 Years After His Death, A New Thrill From Hammett ...

CORRECTS BOOK TITLE - FILE - Novelist Dashiell Hammett, author of "The Maltese Falcon" appears in New York on Nov. 7, 1947. Hammetts Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max ...

Is “Monsieur Spade” the stuff that dreams are made of? It may depend on one’s attitude toward recycling. Some audiences recoil reflexively at the co-opting of pop-cultural iconography, regarding it as ...

The former home of elusive crime writer and author of “The Maltese Falcon” Dashiell Hammett has been listed for $4.35 million, the Real Deal first reported. The building at 237 Leavenworth St. is a ...

How, much does contemporary fiction reflect the mores of the times, and how much do the mores reflect contemporary fiction? Do books really cause the younger generation to feel that they must disrobe ...

Dashiell Hammett, the father of modern American crime fiction, wrote a mere five novels. There are more books about Hammett than by him. But no Hammett biography gives a more knowing portrait of the ...

NEW YORK – The story of one of the great fictional sleuths, Dashiell Hammett 's Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max Allan Collins. The publisher Hard Case Crime announced ...