Dashiell Hammett

Nació 27 de mayo de 1894 · Murió 10 de enero de 1961

De Baltimore, Maryland, United States · Nacionalidad: United States · Escribe ficción y no ficción

Escritor estadounidense de novelas y cuentos de detectives al estilo "hard-boiled". Entre los personajes que creó figuran Sam Spade (El halcón maltés), Nick y Nora Charles (El hombre delgado), el Agente Continental (Cosecha roja y La maldición de los Dain) y el personaje de historieta Agente Secreto X-9.

Citas

“All successful bunko men come in time to believe the world, except for themselves, is populated with a race of human sheep who may be trusted to conduct themselves with true sheeplike docility.”
Short StoriesEn inglés
“Did it ever occur to you that everybody is more or less afraid of nearly everything, and that courage isn’t a damn thing but a habit of not dodging things because you’re afraid of them?”
Short StoriesEn inglés
“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
The Thin ManEn inglés
“I didn’t know then, and I don’t know now, whether she was the owner of the world’s best poker face or was just naturally stupid, but whichever she was, she was thoroughly and completely it.”
Short StoriesEn inglés
“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
The Maltese Falcon, Chapter 12En inglés