Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs - messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore - until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.

His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow

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   Grym bok!

   För någon som har anknytning till Butte, Montana, staden som boken grundar sig på så är den extra spännande! Dock spelar det ingen roll om man har någon anknytning eller inte. Boken är väldigt välskriven, spännande och det är svårt att lägga den ifrån sig. Jag rekommenderar den verkligen och tack Bokus som levererade så snabbt!

   Johannes P

   23 mars 2022