Sam and Dash Remembered
I’m just under the wire -- on the West Coast, anyway -- in reminding readers that it was “50 years ago today, on January 10, 1961, that American detective-story writer Dashiell Hammett -- who’d invented enduring characters such as The Continental Op and Sam Spade, and in the course of it, changed the character of detective fiction itself -- perished of lung cancer at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital. He was only 66 years old, but had contracted tuberculosis during World War I and then damaged his health still further by persistently over-consuming alcohol and cigarettes.”
That’s all from The Rap Sheet’s wonderful tribute to Hammett, which can be found here.
That’s all from The Rap Sheet’s wonderful tribute to Hammett, which can be found here.
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