Dashiell Hammett
The author of ‘The Maltese Falcon’ and ‘The Thin Man’ not only created the modern detective story but changed how Americans drink.
Dashiell Hammett – b. May 27, 1894 – d. Jan. 10, 1961
Humphrey Bogart and Elisha Cook Jr. in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Why do you let these cheap gunmen hang around the lobby…
…with their heaters bulging in their clothes?