[DOC] [TLE] Dashiell Hammett - Wikipedia [PAR] Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hard-boiled detective 
novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist. Among the enduring 
characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora 
Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain 
Curse). ... Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of 
all... [DOC] [TLE] Hammett's Horror: Re-Reading The Dain Curse | Ravenous Monster [PAR] Apr 10, 2014 ... When Samuel Dashiell Hammett, a former Pinkerton operative and ... weight to 
the legitimacy underlying these stories, whether or not one believes that ... of 
critics who assign Hammett the role of detective fiction's first social realist, .... The 
Dain Curse, and even though this novel ends as a hard-boiled action... [DOC] [TLE] The Dain Curse | The Pulp Journals [PAR] Posts about The Dain Curse written by gustravis. ... He worked for Pinkerton 
before he wrote; he knew the ins and outs of the worlds he created. ... I wouldn't 
ever put a first-time Hammett reader onto this one. ... It not only serves the novel's 
tone but explains the hard-boiled detective, his perspective, his purpose and 
position... [DOC] [TLE] Dashiell Hammett - Author - Biography.com [PAR] Jun 2, 2016 ... From his first novel to his last, Dashiell Hammett never strayed far from ... an 
American writer of hard-boiled crime fiction, including the novels ... the renowned 
Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1915, when he was 20. ... only wrote four others: 
Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), ... November 1, 2016... [DOC] [TLE] Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon ... - Amazon.com [PAR] The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934 are collected 
inone ... Featured First in Series titles are up to 50% off for a limited time. .... low-
lives, and the seedier side of life into hard-boiled, hard-hitting detective stories. ... 
Another, "The Thin Man", inspired one of Hollywood's best-loved movie 
franchises. [DOC] [TLE] Crime fiction's 'hard-boiled' revolutionary - latimes [PAR] Jan 30, 2005 ... At the time, the former detective for the Pinkerton agency had been ... to fashion a 
"hard-boiled," thoroughly American type of crime fiction. ... to look at -- one 
woman calls him "a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, ... Hammett used the Op again 
as the first-person narrator of his second novel, "The Dain Curse. [DOC] [TLE] Complete Novels by Dashiell Hammett  Reviews, Discussion ... [PAR] Complete in one volume, the five books that created the modern American crime 
novel ..... Hammett's first psychological novel, "The Dain Curse," is over thought, 
but ..... for a concern not unlike Hammett's own former employer, the Pinkertons. 
.... The father of American hard-boiled detective fiction, Hammett is definitely 
worth... [DOC] [TLE] The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories (Everyman ... [PAR] One of these items is dispatched sooner than the other. .... Four fabulous linked 
stories from the master of hard boiled crime. Introduced ... Samuel Dashiell 
Hammett (1894-1961) is recognized as the first master of hard-boiled detective 
fiction. .... Hammett's own experience as a Pinkerton operative informs these 
stories in an... [DOC] [TLE] Dashiell Hammett | About Dashiell Hammett | American Masters | PBS [PAR] Dec 30, 2003 ... Hard-boiled fiction novels such as The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man 
... Unlike the intellectualized mysteries of earlier detective novels, Hammett's ... 
Op, incorporating much of what he had seen at the Pinkerton Agency. ... Within a 
year Hammett published his second book, THE DAIN CURSE. [DOC] [TLE] Hard Boiled Intro PowerPoint.ppt [PAR] The economic boom following the First World War combined with the introduction 
of ... Hardboiled fiction changed the face of

Question: One of this former Pinkerton detective's first hard-boiled novels was "The Dain Curse"
Answer: Dashiell Hammett