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The 15 pages that link to Dashiell Hammett, each with the reason it gives.

• Film noirRelated: His unsentimental detective fiction provided major source material for noir films.

• Pulp magazineRelated: His pulp work helped define modern detective fiction's unsentimental style.

• Hardboiled fictionRelated: His compact prose and unsentimental detectives helped establish the tradition’s defining style.

• Mystery fictionRelated: His terse, morally ambiguous crime stories challenged the genteel puzzle model.

• Lillian HellmanRelated: Hammett was Hellman’s longtime partner and a major influence on her literary life.

• The Maltese FalconRelated: His novel supplied the characters, plot, and dialogue adapted for the film.

• YojimboRelated: Yojimbo’s divided town and manipulative outsider recall elements of Hammett’s crime fiction.

• Sam SpadeRelated: Hammett created Spade and shaped his terse voice from experience with detective work.

• Jason RobardsRelated: Robards portrayed Hammett in Julia, drawing on the writer’s relationship with Lillian Hellman.

• JuliaRelated: He appears as Hellman’s companion, portrayed by Jason Robards.

• Philip MarloweRelated: Hammett’s detective fiction helped establish the literary tradition Chandler adapted.

• Ben HechtCompared with: Hammett offers a neighboring hard-boiled voice against which Hecht’s crime writing can be compared.

• Ross MacdonaldRelated: Hammett’s tough detective tradition forms part of the genre inheritance Macdonald reshaped.

• James EllroyRelated: Hammett’s terse crime tradition helps place Ellroy within hard-boiled fiction.

• Mickey SpillaneRelated: Hammett’s earlier work established a tradition that Spillane adapted for postwar mass readership.