THE CONTINENTAL OPERATIONS OF DASHIELL HAMMETT
It is tempting to read in the life of Dashiell Hammett a modernist conversion narrative. Often considered the father of noir, Hammett began his career as an agent for the Pinkerton Agency, where he gained the practical knowledge of detective work that would impart such realism to his later crime sto...
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| Published in | Darkly Perfect World p. 14 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Ohio State University Press
09.10.2020
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| Summary: | It is tempting to read in the life of Dashiell Hammett a modernist conversion narrative. Often considered the father of noir, Hammett began his career as an agent for the Pinkerton Agency, where he gained the practical knowledge of detective work that would impart such realism to his later crime stories. During his time with the Pinkertons, Hammett worked as a strikebreaker for Anaconda Copper in 1920; in a famous apocryphal story, Hammett describes a pivotal encounter with an Anaconda official, in which the detective was offered $5,000 to assassinate a union organizer in Butte, Montana. Activist Frank Little was |
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| ISBN: | 9780814211250 0814211259 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv177tgmz.5 |