Biographer Layman (Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett) and Rivett, Hammett's granddaughter, offer a deeply involving anthology of the voluminous correspondence of Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), ...

Dashiell the cat is pictured Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at The Raven Book Store in downtown Lawrence. If your working life has consisted of loafing in the sun with your nose in a book and being admired ...

A 1910 Tenderloin apartment building that “Maltese Falcon” author Dashiell Hammett once called home is on the market for $6.25 million. The 35-unit-building at 620 Eddy Street was listed this week in ...

Dashiell Hammett gave us Sam Spade, not to mention Nick and Nora Charles. Now, from the long-deceased author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin... 50 Years After His Death, A New Thrill From Hammett ...

CORRECTS BOOK TITLE - FILE - Novelist Dashiell Hammett, author of "The Maltese Falcon" appears in New York on Nov. 7, 1947. Hammetts Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max ...

In the North Coast Rep production directed by Todd Nielsen, veteran North Coast Rep actor Richard Baird is playing Sam Spade, with Shelley Regner cast as femme fatale Brigid O’Shaughnessy.

Who doesn't love a good mystery? There are plenty of crime and mystery movies and series to watch with new ones debuting all the time, but we love returning to our old favorite private eyes. Do we ...

Is “Monsieur Spade” the stuff that dreams are made of? It may depend on one’s attitude toward recycling. Some audiences recoil reflexively at the co-opting of pop-cultural iconography, regarding it as ...

How, much does contemporary fiction reflect the mores of the times, and how much do the mores reflect contemporary fiction? Do books really cause the younger generation to feel that they must disrobe ...

Dashiell Hammett, the father of modern American crime fiction, wrote a mere five novels. There are more books about Hammett than by him. But no Hammett biography gives a more knowing portrait of the ...

After no-nonsense private eye Sam Spade—the forebear to Raymond Chandler‘s iconic noir detective Philip Marlowe—is hired by the beautiful Miss Wonderly to track down a roughneck she claims ran off ...