Dashiell Hammett mostly invented the hard boiled detective story. I like Hammett because he had this thing where every story had one perfect sentence. If you search through you can usually find it. It is a sentence that blows you away. In his novels, you can find them scattered about. I read fast, sometimes skimming entire pages, but with Hammett, I am forced to slow down, because I don’t want to miss these little jewels.

I am interested in reading these stories and might even subscribe to “The Strand” where they will appear, just to get to read them.

Dashiell Hammett Short Stories Discovered and Published in The Strand – The Daily Beast.