Dashiell Hammett
出生 : 1894-05-27, Saint Mary's County, Maryland, USA
死亡 : 1961-01-10
略歴
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". 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, four out of five of his novels made The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time as selected by the Mystery Writers of America. His novels and stories also had a significant influence on films, including the genres of private eye/detective fiction, mystery thrillers, and film noir.
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Novel
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.
Novel
Paul Madvig is a businessman in an American town in the 1920s, doing everything to maintain his power. He plans to marry Janet, the daughter of senator Ralph Henry who must be re-elected in order to ensure Paul's position. Paul is sure of himself and treats his competitor Shad O'Rory, who is involved in the gambling business, with arrogance. Then the senator's son is murdered. It is rumoured that Paul is behind the murder. Private detective Ned Beaumont, an old friend of Paul's, starts to investigate the case. Based on the novel "The Glass Key" by Dashiell Hammett.
Novel
Douglas Davis presents his interpretations of The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Napoleon in the triptych style of the finale of the Abel Gance version of the latter.
Novel
A murder mystery set in the old west.
Characters
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
Characters
Retired detective Nick Charles and his wife set out to solve a murder mystery after a corpse wearing white gloves is found in a hotel pool.
Characters
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Characters
American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.
Characters
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Screenplay
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.
Novel
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Characters
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Screenplay
ダシール・ハメットのミステリー3度目の映画化で、J・ヒューストンの初監督作品。ばく大な価値を持つとされる“マルタの鷹”と呼ばれる彫像をめぐる争いに巻き込まれた私立探偵サム・スペード。警察から相棒アーチャーの殺害容疑をかけられ、あやしい人物たちの中で命の危険にさらされながら、真相に迫っていく。
Author
ダシール・ハメットのミステリー3度目の映画化で、J・ヒューストンの初監督作品。ばく大な価値を持つとされる“マルタの鷹”と呼ばれる彫像をめぐる争いに巻き込まれた私立探偵サム・スペード。警察から相棒アーチャーの殺害容疑をかけられ、あやしい人物たちの中で命の危険にさらされながら、真相に迫っていく。
Story
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Characters
A secret agent goes after the gang that stole the crown jewels of a European monarchy.
Story
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
Novel
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Novel
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
Story
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
Story
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
Novel
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Novel
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Story
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
Novel
Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.
