American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the 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.
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Fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Continental Op (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Large type books, Private investigators, fiction, Nick Charles (Fictitious character), Nora Charles (Fictitious character), Sam Spade (Fictitious character), American Short stories, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Amerikanisches Englisch, Charles, nick (fictitious character), fiction, Charles, nora (fictitious character), fiction, Continental op (fictitious character), fiction, Detective and mystery stories, English Short stories, Fiction in English, Married people, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Translations into Russian, Women detectives, American Noir fictionPlaces
United States, California, Estados Unidos, New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), San Francisco, San Francisco (Calif.)People
Sam SpadeID Numbers
- OLID: OL28314A
- ISNI: 0000000121393171
- VIAF: 73854531
- Wikidata: Q186335
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q186335
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- Dashiel Hammett
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