Shadow man : the life of Dashiell Hammett / by Richard Layman.
TITLE:
Shadow man : the life of Dashiell Hammett / by Richard Layman.
Publication Date:
1984, 1981
Publication Information:
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Edition:
1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
Physical Description:
xviii, 293 p.
Summary:
Hammett, the former Pinkerton detective who reinvented the mystery story in five books written between 1929 and 1934, is carefully examined. An unsentimental account of his life from a rural Maryland youth through the Pinkerton years in San Francisco, fame as a novelist, notoriety as a Hollywood screen writer, imprisonment as an uncooperative McCarthy committee witness, and an obscure death in 1961.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780156814003
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
