In early 1942, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hammett again enlisted in the United States Army.

The tough, stylish detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Jonathan Latimer, Erle Stanley Gardner and others explored the " mean streets " and corrupt underbelly of the United States.

Hammett testified on July 9, 1951 in front of United States District Court Judge Sylvester Ryan, facing questioning by Irving Saypol, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, described by Time as " the nation's number one legal hunter of top Communists ".

In the United States, frequently shoplifted books include ones by authors Charles Bukowski, Jim Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Georges Bataille, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Italo Calvino, Don DeLillo, Raymond Chandler, Michel Foucault, Dashiell Hammett, Jack Kerouac and other Beat generation writers, Jeanette Winterson, Chuck Palahniuk, Haruki Murakami, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Mark Z. Danielewski.

Writers like Dashiell Hammett ( 1894 – 1961 ), Raymond Chandler ( 1888 – 1959 ), Jonathan Latimer ( 1906 – 1983 ), Mickey Spillane ( 1918 – 2006 ), and many others decided on an altogether different, innovative approach to crime fiction.

Hammett served time in a West Virginia federal penitentiary where, according to Lillian Hellman, he was assigned to cleaning toilets.

Dashiell Hammett resolved this contradiction by ceasing to write mystery stories and turning to other pursuits.

Bobby Bester Hammett, 21, of Rte. 3, Lawrenceville, and Mrs. Lucille Herrington Jones, 23, of Lawrenceville, died in the flaming car, the patrol said.

His PI, Dan Fortune, was consistently involved in the same sort of David-and-Goliath stories that Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald wrote, but Collins took a sociological bent, exploring the meaning of his characters ' places in society and the impact society had on people.

Thayer moved to Santa Barbara in 1912, where he married Rosalind Buel Hammett and retired.

Following the disastrous One from the Heart, Coppola co-directed Hammett along with Wim Wenders in the same year.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

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The original novel, written by Dashiell Hammett, was first published in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1929.

James Brine, James Hammett, George Loveless, George's brother James Loveless, George's brother in-law Thomas Standfield, and Thomas's son John Standfield were arrested, found guilty, and transported to Australia.

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A mystery novel admired by Dashiell Hammett.

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** Dashiell Hammett, American author ( d. 1961 )

Many of its situations, characters and dialogue are derived from the work of Dashiell Hammett, especially his 1931 novel The Glass Key and the 1942 film that was adapted from it.

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The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask.

In this novel, Hammett redefines many of the conventions of the " hard-boiled " detective genre.

However, unlike some other hard-boiled detectives who have a strong sense of idealism underneath the cynical shell, Hammett never provides a clear statement of Spade's notion of morality.

Spade attempts to explain himself to Brigid O ' Shaughnessy with the Flitcraft parable, in which Hammett makes an oblique reference to the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, but O ' Shaughnessy has no idea what he is getting at.

Spade's blatant calculus of risk, reward and duty with which Hammett ends the novel contains remarkably little trace of morality.

Both Jo Hammett, Dashiell Hammett's only living daughter, and Julie Rivett attended the premiere.

After joining them in 1942, their son, Péter Bartók, enlisted in the United States Navy where he served in the Pacific during the remainder of the war and later settled in Florida where he became a recording and sound engineer.

All team members, both officer and enlisted, pilots and staff officers, come from the ranks of regular Navy and United States Marine Corps units.

Although he was against the Vietnam War, Venter was drafted and enlisted in the United States Navy where he worked in the intensive-care ward of a field hospital.

His first film part was at the age of 13, and by the age of 25 he had appeared in 20 films and served two years as an enlisted man in the United States Army.

Unable to support himself, on May 27, 1827, Poe enlisted in the United States Army as a private.

For example Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. says that United States Air Force culture includes an egalitarianism bred from officers as warriors who work with small groups of enlisted airmen either as the service crew or onboard crew of their aircraft.

Within four days after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Capra quit his highly successful directing career in Hollywood and enlisted as a major in the United States Army.

With no viable career options, Bogart followed his love for the sea and enlisted in the United States Navy in the spring of 1918.

For instance, in the United States Army of 2009, there were only approximately 49, 000 Infantrymen out of about 565, 000 active duty enlisted personnel.

In October 1943 ( during the Second World War ), he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and served with the first racially integrated crew on the USCGC Sea Cloud, under Carlton Skinner.

He then enlisted in the United States Army and served in the Military Police Corps.

* Musician ( MU ), an enlisted rating in the United States Navy

Pirsig enlisted in the United States Army in 1946 and was stationed in South Korea until 1948.

* 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.

Franks enlisted in the United States Army in 1965 and attended Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and received his Advanced Individual Training as a cryptologic analyst at Fort Devens, Massachusetts.

With the outbreak of the Civil War in the U. S., many black refugees enlisted in the Union Army and, while some later returned to Canada, many remained in the United States.

Membership is for former and present officers and enlisted personnel of the United States Coast Guard, and designated pilots of other military services and foreign governments who have piloted Coast Guard aircraft while involved in exchange programs between the Coast Guard and their respective service or government.

* Warrant Officer ( United States ), ( grade W-1 to W-5 ) is ranked as an officer above the senior-most enlisted ranks, as well as officer cadets and candidates, but below the officer grade of O-1 ( NATO: OF-1 )

** The United States Army suspends Gene C. McKinney, Sergeant Major of the Army, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.

" In the history of women in the military, there are records of female U. S. Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers who enlisted using male pseudonyms, but Oakley's letter represents possibly the earliest political move towards women's rights for combat service in the United States military.

Among the details he gave authorities, was that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lieutenant had told him that Reid and Abderraouf Jdey had both been enlisted by the al-Qaeda chief to carry out identical shoe-bombing plots as part of a second wave of attacks against the United States, and that they had successfully blown up Flight 587, while Reid had been stymied.

Grissom enlisted as an aviation cadet in the United States Army Air Forces and completed an entrance exam in November 1943.

Truman enlisted in the 100th Aero Squadron – 7th Squad of United States Army as a private on August 4, 1917, later surviving the torpedoing of the Tuscania on February 5, 1918, off the coast of Ireland.

His father eventually enlisted him in the United States Marine Band as an apprentice in 1868.

When Sousa reached the age of 13, his father, a trombonist in the Marine Band, enlisted his son in the United States Marine Corps as an apprentice to keep him from joining a circus band.