Dashiell Hammett itu apa sih?

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; ) adalah seorang pengarang novel detektif dan cerpen asal Amerika Serikat. Ia juga merupakan penulis naskah dan aktivis politik. Ia menciptakan karakter Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick dan Nora Charles (The Thin Man), the Continental Op (Red Harvest dan The Dain Curse) dan karakter strip komik Secret Agent X-9.

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Mellon, Joan (1996). Hellman and Hammett. New York: Harper Collins.

Metress, Christopher, ed. (1994). The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

Nolan, William F. (1969). Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook. Santa Barbara: McNally & Lofin.

Nolan, William F. (1983). Hammett: A Life at the Edge. New York: Congdon & Weed.

Panek, Leroy Lad (2004). Reading Early Hammett: A Critical Study of the Fiction Prior to The Maltese Falcon. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.

Symons, Julian (1985). Dashiell Hammett. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Thompson, George J. "Rhino" (2007). Hammett's Moral Vision. San Francisco: Vince Emery Productions.

Ward, Nathan (2015). The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett. New York: Bloomsbury USA.

Richard Layman collection of Dashiell Hammett at the University of South Carolina Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Library of Congress lecture by Hammett estate trustee and biographer Richard Layman on the 75th anniversary of The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett Collection  at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin