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"[Dashiell Hammett's] The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote." REX STOUT
"""l've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone l can think of.""- Dashiell Hammett"
I love Dashiell Hammett too much to say the Ripley novels are the greatest crime novels of all time, but they are very likely the coolest
So, I am staying quite close to where Dashiell Hammett lived. It is also the Tenderloin of SF. Confirmed due to CrazyLadyScreamingOutside.
"I don't let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is." Dashiell Hammett, quoted in Hellman's memoir (the next day, he went to jail)