A novelist who parlayed his experience as a Pinkerton operative into a series of taut, precisely observed detective fictions that revolutionized the genre, Dashiell Hammett is perhaps best recalled for his novel "The Thin Man" that was developed into a popular movie series of the 1930s and 40s starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, and his tightly plotted "The Maltese Falcon"…
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