CONTINENTAL DETECTIVE AGENCY: DASHIELL HAMMETT, LIFE WORKS & MORE

BIOGRAPHICAL LINKS

Note: this page of links is intended to be viewed as part of our biography of Dashiell Hammett. If you have come from elsewhere, click here to see it.

PINKERTONS still operate today offering corporate security services. You can visit their website where they have a good archive giving something of the flavour of their colourful history - including their attempts to capture Butch Cassidy.

FRANK LITTLE: Many of the web sources that cover Little are written in grudging leftwing tones but the following sites give a good outline of events and include some useful history about the International Workers of the World. There is some good background to the kind of world Hammett was working in. 

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlittleF.htm

http://www.butteamerica.com/flit.htm

http://www.newhumanist.com/little.html

FATTY ARBUCKLE: Hammett's involvement in the trial was limited to research work for the defence team. Several good accounts of the Arbuckle trial exist on the internet. Try the following...

http://www.phenry.org/text/arbuckle.txt

http://www.ralphmag.org/fatty.html

DOROTHY PARKER wrote a complimentary review of The Glass Key in 1933 which you can read by clicking here.

NEW YORK TIMES
You can read the NYT editorial written following Hammett's death by clicking here.