Murder doesn’t round out anybody’s life except the murdered’s and sometimes the murderer’s.
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| Birth: | 27th May, 1894 |
| Death: | 10th January, 1961 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist, Screenwriter |
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Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in Saint Mary's County, Maryland. He was an American novelist, screenwriter and political activist. Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". Hammett devoted much of the rest of his life to left-wing activism. He was a strong anti-fascist throughout the 1930s and in 1937 he joined the Communist Party USA.
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