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- Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. — James Ellroy
- Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier
- Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest… — Loren D. Estleman
- I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of… — Ross Macdonald
- I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,… — Megan Abbott
- Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler
- While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period… — Paul Auster
- All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. — Donna Leon
- Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with… — Raymond Chandler