On This Day In History Crime Writer Dashiell Hammett Died

As History.com notes, on this day in 1961 Dashiell Hammett died.

Hammett was born in Maryland on May 27, 1894. He left school at age 13 and took a series of low-paying jobs, eventually landing at Pinkerton’s detective agency. He worked as a detective for eight years and turned his experiences into fiction that set the mold for later writers like Raymond Chandler. Hammett’s deadpan description of violent or emotional events came to be known as the “hard-boiled” style of detective fiction.

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You can also read my Crime Beat column, From Street To Paper: A Look Back At Dashiell Hammett, Crime Writer and Detective, via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2016/05/my-crime-beat-column-from-street-to.html