His novels were written during a time in which the USA had to struggle with new social developments and economical shifts and problems, all somehow reflected in Hammett’s fiction. This is an important contribution to the development of the crime novel, and with his distinct style and setting, Hammett clearly shaped the face of hard-boiled fiction. Here we have descriptions of a rough American urban setting, with characters talking like they would talk in reality. The world of Dashiell Hammett is a completely different one. This particular sub-genre is seen as an American counterpart of the British crime fiction that rather concerned itself with upper-class murders in a somehow artificial world. Hammett (1894-1961) was one of the most influential writers of hard-boiled crime fiction. This quote from an essay entitled “The Simple Art of Murder”, which was published by Raymond Chandler in 1944, is a well-known description of Dashiell Hammett’s style of writing. Hammett took murder out of the Venetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
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