#Dashiel Hammett

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Author Dashiell Hammett arriving in Hollywood circa 1935 to write the sequel to the hit, THE THIN MAN.

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Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre - The Maltese Falcon (1941)

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Song of the Thin Man promo still

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Dashiell Hammett, May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961.

Being sworn in by Senator Joseph McCarthy just before refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee on March 26, 1953. Photo by Hank Walker.

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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙣 1941

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atwq lemony snicket thinks he's sam spade (hard boiled, effortlessly tough, fast-talking & witty, always wins, gets the girl) but he's really philip marlowe (clinically depressed, dryly sarcastic, desensitized to violence, gets his ass beat, always ends up alone)

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“I saw his girl, the big red-head, tonight in a speak,” I told him. “She’s saying you and I killed him because he knew too much.”

He said: “Hm-m-m. What speak was that? I might want to talk to her.”

“Studsy Burke’s Pigiron Club,” I said, and gave him the address. “Morelli hangs out there too. He tells me Julia Wolf’s real name is Nancy Kane and she has a boy friend doing time in Ohio—Face Peppler.”

—Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

Photo: A speakeasy in 1933, by Margaret Bourke-White for Life magazine

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Harry Bennett, cover art for "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett

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Anyone have any song recommendations for a Joel Cairo playlist?

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Released on this day in 1941, THE MALTESE FALCON. What's your favorite line of dialog from John Huston's adaption of the Dashiell Hammett novel?

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I am reading The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett and damn is it like reading a story about Nick Valentine. The detective’s name is even Nick, and his wife is Nora! Just like the female SS!

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a rare whisper of homosexuality from dashiell hammett. maybe someone is finally wearing the kind of cologne hammett deems manly enough

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“The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett was published on or about February 14, 1930.

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Myrna Loy and William Powell

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Dashiell Hammett, May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961.

1937 photo by Paul Dorsey.