American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), The Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
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Dashiell Hammett
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C. Auguste Dupin, Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen, Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), Godfrey Norton, Grimesby Roylott, Helen Stoner, Irene Adler, John H. Watson, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes, Stroke Moran, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von OrmsteinID Numbers
- OLID: OL28314A
- ISNI: 0000000121393171
- VIAF: 73854531
- Wikidata: Q186335
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q186335
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- Dashiel Hammett
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