[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 ... It is not certain why he 
moved away from fiction; Hellman speculated in a posthumous collection of 
Hammett's... [DOC] [TLE] Nick and Nora Charles - Wikipedia [PAR] Nick and Nora Charles are fictional characters created by Dashiell Hammett in 
his novel The ... Hammett reportedly modeled Nora on his longtime partner Lillian 
Hellman, and the characters' boozy, ... The novel is considered one of the 
seminal texts of the hard-boiled subgenre of mystery novels, but the chief 
innovation... [DOC] [TLE] JEOPARDY! Game - March 26, 2004 [PAR] (3) This lover of Lillian Hellman is credited with creating the hard-boiled type of 
detective fiction. $600 - Mike. (12) This 5-word question became a catchphrase... [DOC] [TLE] On The Maltese Falcon - The Poet's Forum [PAR] Although detective fiction was born with Edgar Allen Poe in 1841, Dashiell 
Hammett is generally regarded as the father of the 'hard-boiled' genre. ... 
Chandler, Ross Macdonald and Ian Fleming credited their inspiration to Hammett
. ... [Hammett] gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it . . . he put 
these people... [DOC] [TLE] Mystery writer | Books | The Guardian [PAR] Feb 15, 2002 ... She follows clues to find the true story of the hard-drinking, ... in northern Canada, 
I read a lot of old detective fiction because it was there. ... his companion of many 
years and literary executrix, Lillian Hellman, .... They are very much of their period 
and genre - "hard-boiled" was the term used of this kind of... [DOC] [TLE] Dashiell Hammett Lecture - Joan Mellen [PAR] Mar 5, 2009 ... As for love, speaking for Hammett, Spade says, I don't know what that amounts 
to. ... So in The Dain Curse, another of Hammett's great novels of the 1920s, ... 
Lillian Hellman assumed Dashiell Hammett's writing style, his tough-talking, his 
.... And so he invented his gallant, stoical, hard-boiled detective. [DOC] [TLE] Pursuit Magazine How Dashiell Hammett Invented the Modern ... [PAR] Jan 13, 2013 ... How Dashiell Hammett Invented The Modern Detective Novel ... Dashiell 
Hammett coined all of these classic elements of noir fiction with his 1930 .... He 
came to loathe the hard-boiled style he'd created, calling it a menace. ... The 
lone bidder was Lillian Hellman, his longtime friend and lover, who secured... [DOC] [TLE] The Man With Stories to Tell - The Daily Beast [PAR] Dec 8, 2013 ... The perfect gift for any crime and mystery lover this season is a new omnibus 
edition of ... (And no wonder: Hammett modeled Nick and Nora after himself and 
Lillian Hellman, the playwright ... What he really invented was the crime story. .... 
or popular conceptions of the father of hard-boiled detective fiction. [DOC] [TLE] The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward ... [PAR] Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-
boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting... [DOC] [TLE] Politics and the 1920s Writings of Dashiell Hammett - JStor [PAR] agency in 1 855, the first in the U.S., before the creation of most local or national 
.... According to his long-term lover Lillian Hellman, Hammett claimed that ..... 
Sean McCann argues in Gumshoe America that hard-boiled detective fiction ..... 
Notes. 1. Neither Barbara Foley's Radical Representations: Politics and Form in 
U.S.... [DOC] [TLE] Nick, Nora (And Asta) Return In 'Thin Man' Novellas : NPR [PAR] Nov 3, 2012 ... It was hard-boiled, but also light-hearted; funny, with a hint of homicide. ... 
Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man invented a new kind of crime fiction. ... were 
rich, witty and in love, when America was in the middle

Question: This lover of Lillian Hellman is credited with creating the hard-boiled type of detective fiction
Answer: Dashiell Hammett