Dashiell Hammett Quote
Dorothy's coming up. I think she's tight.That's great. I picked up my bathrobe. I was afraid I was going to have to get some sleep.She was bending over looking for her slippers. Don't be such an old fluff. You can sleep all day. She found her slippers and stood up in them. Is she really as afraid of her mother as she says?If she's got any sense. Mimi's poison.Nora screwed up her dark eyes at me and asked slowly: What are you holding out on me?Oh, dear, I said, I was hoping I wouldn't have to tell you. Dorothy is really my daughter. I didn't know what I was doing, Nora. It was spring in Venice and I was so young and there was a moon over the...Be funny. Don't you want something to eat?
Dorothy's coming up. I think she's tight.That's great. I picked up my bathrobe. I was afraid I was going to have to get some sleep.She was bending over looking for her slippers. Don't be such an old fluff. You can sleep all day. She found her slippers and stood up in them. Is she really as afraid of her mother as she says?If she's got any sense. Mimi's poison.Nora screwed up her dark eyes at me and asked slowly: What are you holding out on me?Oh, dear, I said, I was hoping I wouldn't have to tell you. Dorothy is really my daughter. I didn't know what I was doing, Nora. It was spring in Venice and I was so young and there was a moon over the...Be funny. Don't you want something to eat?
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About Dashiell Hammett
Hammett is regarded as one of the very best mystery writers. In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. In 1990, the Crime Writers' Association picked three of his five novels for their list of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Five years later, The Maltese Falcon placed second on The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time as selected by the Mystery Writers of America; Red Harvest, The Glass Key and The Thin Man were also on the list. His novels and stories also had a significant influence on mystery films, including the style that came to be known as film noir.