Vintage Paperback The Dain Curse Dashiell Hammett 1968 1st Print Exc Condition

Description: Vintage Paperback The Dain Curse Dashiell Hammett 1968 1st Printing. Excellent Condition, the book has a small inscription by a prior owner on the inside front cover (see photos), other than that the book is in excellent condition without marks, tears, folds, wrinkles, stains, or other damage. Dell book #1668. Published by Dell Publishing Co, Inc. in New York. Copyright 1928, 1929, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright renewed 1957, by Dashiell Hammett. First Dell printing, April 1968. Cover illustration by Teason. 7" tall and 4.25" wide. The book has a list of the Cast of Characters at the beginning of the book. Characters are The Detective, Alice Leggett, Edgar Leggett, Gabrielle Leggett, Minnie Hershey, Eric Collinson, Owen Fitzstephan, Aaronia Haldorn, Madison Andrews, Joseph Haldorn, and Harvey Whidden. Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of crime and detective novels, screenwriter, and political activist born on May 27, 1894, in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Some of his best-known novels are "Red Harvest", "The Dain Curse", "The Maltese Falcon", "The Glass Key", and "The Thin Man". Hammett served in World War I and World War II. He had several jobs including messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore- until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. Hammett wrote over 80 short stories, mostly published in "Black Mask" magazine. His first story was published in 1922 in "The Smart Set" magazine. Other magazines he published stories in include "10 Story Book", "Brief Stories", "The New Pearson's", "Saucy Stories", "Action Stories", "True Detective Stories", "Argosy All-Story Weekly", "Experience", "Sunset", "True Police Stories", "Judge", "Mystery Stories", "Harper's Bazaar", "American Magazine", "Collier's", "Liberty", "Mystery League", "Esquire", "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine", "The Strand", "Detective Fiction Weekly", "Redbook", and "Click". Hammett wrote a daily comic strip, "Secret Agent X-9", for King Features Syndicate. Hammett wrote the screenplay for "Watch on the Rhine" in 1943. Movies made from his works include "City Streak", "Mister Dynamite", "After the Thin Man", "Another Thin Man", "Roadhouse Nights", "Satan Met a Lady", "No Good Deed", "Shadow of the Thin Man", "The Thin Man Goes Home", "Song of the Thin Man", "Secret Agent X-9", "The Fat Man", "Two Sharp Knives", "The Maltese Falcon", "Woman in the Dark", "The Thin Man", and "The Glass Key". Some of Hammett's famous characters include Sam Spade, Nick Charles, Nora Charles, and Secret Agent X-9. Some of his other books include "Nightmare Town", "The Big Knockover", "Woman in the Dark", "The Continental Op", "Arson Plus", "They Can Only Hang You Once", "The House in Turk Street", "The Adventures of Sam Spade", "The Tenth Clew", "The Hunter", "The Girl with Silver Eyes", "Who Killed Bob Teal?", "Tulip", "Lost Stories", "Honest Gains", "The Assistant Murderer", "In The Morgue", 'The Diamond Wager", "Crooked Souls", "Too Many Have Lived", "The Creeping Siamese", and many others. Hammett also wrote several nonfiction books including ""The Crime Wave". Hammett is regarded as one of the very best mystery writers of all time. Dashiell Hammett died on January 10, 1961, in Manhattan, New York. Many of his papers are held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. This archive includes manuscripts and personal correspondence. The Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina holds the Dashiell Hammett family papers.

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