Dashiell Hammett
KNOWN FOR
Hard-boiled fiction novels such as The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man
AMERICAN MASTERS FILM
Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer (Jun 1999)Directed by Joshua Waletsky
Written Features
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