American Decades
"From the Memoirs of a Private Detective"
Magazine article
By: Dashiell Hammett
Date: 1923
Source: Hammett, Dashiell. "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective." The Smart Set, March 1923. Reprinted in The Thrilling Detective Website. Available online at http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/hammett2.htm; website home page: http://www.thrillingdetective.com/index.html (accessed August 14, 2002).
About the Author: Writer Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) originated the "hardboiled" detective story genre. Born in Maryland, Hammett dropped out of school at thirteen to help support his family. He was a messenger boy, railroad clerk, and stevedore before starting detective work in 1915. Hammett's fiction drew on his investigative experiences. His most famous story, The Maltese Falcon,...
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1920's The Arts Primary Sources
- "The New O'Neill Play"
- New York Dada
- Documenting the Eskimos
- Selections from The Book of American Negro Poetry
- Art of Alfred Stieglitz
- Bessie Smith's Blues
- "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective"
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Dempsey and Firpo
- Calder's Circus
- The General
- The Jazz Singer
- "Blue Skies"
- "Far from Well"
- Steamboat Willie
- Lulu in Hollywood
- Blood Memory
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1920's: Primary Sources
