Josephine Hammett

Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers

Josephine Hammett, Richard Laymon, Julie M. Rivett

• 2002 Anthony-Critical nominee
• 2002 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
• Score: 12.52

For more than forty years, since the day her illustrious father died, Jo Hammett has kept her silence. Now, for the first time, with uncompromising candor and profound admiration, she tells the story of Dashiell Hammett—Hollywood screenwriter and high-flying author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man—as she knew him. In Jo Hammett’s earliest recollections, although her already famous father exists outside the sphere of the daily life she shares with her mother and sister, he writes to Jo frequently and visits when he can. Jo’s memories of him are golden: She…