One of the best pulp noir novels ever written is now in the public domain, which means anyone can adapt it without permission from the former rights holders. This happens every year when movies, books ...
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 ...
A one-hour public television (PBS) biography of Dashiell Hammett, creator of the "hardboiled" modern detective novel and author of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man." It follows Hammett's life ...