Mystery Monday: Dashiell Hammett Thin Man Thanks to novelist Dashiell Hammett (whose 125 th birthday past last month), hard-boiled...

Mystery Monday: The Thin Man I was introduced to The Thin Man series during my teen years. My father and I spent many a Saturday night ...

At a time when mystery books seemed to be split into two schools – the hard-boiled detective story (think Raymond Chandler ...

Nearly fifty years old and already famous for his hard-boiled detective stories, Dashiell Hammett enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942. H...