The series as a whole has been described as tightly plotted with "intricacies to rival Hammett or Chandler".
"The search for a Hungarian crime thriller is at an end: Vilmos Kondor’s novel is a Hungarian crime thriller and then some, one of the harder variety, in the spirit of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but with Hungarian characters and set in the Hungarian capital in the period before World War II."
He has translated into Spanish more than sixty books, among them works by V. S. Naipaul (Nobel Prize for Literature 2001), Anthony Burgess, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and the "landscape" poems by Cesare Pavese lately.
The director changed gears with El Crack, in which he used the figure of the hard boiled detective in a story inspired by the novels of Dashiell Hammett, to whom the film is dedicated, and employing elements of the American film noirs of the 1930s and 40s giving it a Spanish flavor.
Chang's experiments in crime fiction is related to this shift, since the stories revolve around solving a mystery or crime, and despite the fact that the protagonist is Korean American, the debt here is more to crime and noir writers like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald.
While living in San Francisco at 607 Rhodes, he became an associate of authors Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Dashiell Hammett and later Clark Ashton Smith, as well as poet George Sterling.
The title, "The Big Knockover," is taken from a short story by Dashiell Hammett.
Many sources agree that this book marked a turning point in the series, wherein Macdonald abandoned his imitations of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and found his own voice.
Dashiell Hammett | Kirk Hammett | Hammett | Seth Hammett | Hammett Prize | Hammett, Idaho | Dashiell Eaves (right) as Joey with Brian d'Arcy James and Andrew Connolly in the original Broadway cast of The Lieutenant of Inishmore | Bryant Hammett |
Dashiell Hammett, once a Pinkerton agent stationed in Butte, Montana -- where he (allegedly) turned down an offer to assassinate Little -- used some historical background on union troubles and corporate corruption in his novel Red Harvest.
It evokes both the milieu and style of other mystery writers Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Ross Macdonald, all of whom Bradbury names in the book's dedication, and James Crumley, after whom Bradbury named his detective.
With Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon backdrop, the restaurant takes pride in serving true Americcan cuisine carefully and tastefully prepared with fresh ingredients.
Spivak published inexpensive digest-sized paperback editions, often abridged, of works by authors including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon, Rex Stout and Cornell Woolrich.
Yojimbo is itself believed to have been based on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest.
It is the fifth of the six Thin Man films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Dashiell Hammett's dapper private detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora.
Maltese Falcon Society, an organization for admirers of Dashiell Hammett, his novel The Maltese Falcon, and hard-boiled mystery books and writers in general