Dashiell Hammett
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Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960
Julie M. Rivett, Richard Laymon, Josephine Hammett Marshall, Dashiell Hammett
A literary event: The first-ever selection from the letters of Dashiell Hammett, the genius of American crime fiction.
More than any book before it, this one gives us the complete Hammett, in his own words. Here is Hammett the family man, distant but devoted, sometimes late with the check but never too late; Hammett the student of politics, scanning the headlines from a Marxist perspective; Hammett the lover of Lillian Hellman, delighting in her style, humor, accomplishments but maintaining his independence. Celebrity, soldier, activist, survivor—Hammett was…
