The Big Sleep
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Marlowe and Sam Spade
Demetrius
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Jan 23, 2015 12:37PM
This is the real life detective contacting the writers and making The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon and other stories so great:
What do you think of this influence of the authors?
What do you think of this influence of the authors?
Looks like a hoax spurred by a movie exec to push her screenplay.
Dashiell Hammett actually was a private investigator before turning to writing.
I believe he worked for the Pinkertons as a strike breaker. I think his experience would have been far from the life of his characters. He's another of the great writers, though, who didn't have to graduate from Harvard with a degree in English Literature.
Martin Hill
He was a Pinkerton operative from 1915 to 1922. He left the agency because of its strike-breaking work. Hammett was a strong anti-fascist and pro-comm
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