The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Ward, Nathan

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his...
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Author: Nathan Ward
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The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Ward, Nathan

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

$26.40

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

$26.40
Author: Nathan Ward
Format: MP3 CD
Language: English

Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor Maryland family, Hammett left school at 13 and held several jobs before joining the Pinkerton National Detective Agency as an operative in 1915. With time off in 1918 to serve at the end of World War I, he remained with the agency until 1922, participating in the banal and dramatic actions alike of an operative. The tuberculosis he contracted during the war forced him to leave the Pinkertons--but it may well have prompted one of America's most acclaimed writing careers.

While Hammett's life on center stage has been well-documented, the question of how he got there has not. That largely overlooked phase is the subject of Nathan Ward's enthralling The Lost Detective. Hammett's childhood, his life in San Francisco, and especially his experience as a detective deeply informed his writing and his characters, from the nameless Continental Op to Sam Spade and Nick Charles. The success of his many stories in the pulp magazine Black Mask led him to novels; he would write five between 1929 and 1934, two of them (The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) now American classics. Though he inspired generations of writers, after The Thin Man he never finished another book--a painful silence for his devoted fans--and his popular image has long been shaped by the remembrance of Hellman, who knew him after his literary reputation had been made.

Based on original research across the country, The Lost Detective is the first book to illuminate Hammett's transformation from real detective to great American detective writer, throwing brilliant new light on one of America's most celebrated and remembered novelists and his world.



Author: Nathan Ward
Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance
Published: 01/12/2016
Binding Type: MP3 CD
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781511364324

About the Author
Ward, Nathan: - Nathan Ward is the author of Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront. He was an editor at American Heritage, and he has written for the New York Times and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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